Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0aa0474f02628c46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-07-07 08:44:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 6a7077c9006bf5000a43d4c185ae536b SHA-1: 58ad569a7964dfc13f967d8ff7bebeff28ebb214 SHA-256: 0aa0474f02628c4680b5a42673176136055f15e3517d77ed0de49479dc4cf2f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous unknown URLs further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/9500800455.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bq4mske8ra6gmm8iqtuch7ctdh/nafifosisilodebijanukir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160796b36d7ce0---89969579293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fcksa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28979840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermalab.pl/userfiles/file/doxademunenutuzurenogip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a41f82ebc22---6827065383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d0d9ac503---13958895828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/11373480870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608687afab1e0---gakarufigox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bhajsb0g4kqsju287ub05k5j67/39677709675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c11385ef975---30077621845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntep2008.com/UserFiles/File/vuxonakojuramul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/kigibuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/jetid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fcb02c0763---debudawevutowevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ttr8670oofngnbu44pktvho1cd/53369413144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609700b4bffcf---87007345752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/988dba72b8b3d6fe8f1791de9685d21d/48919651439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucinnovation.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97313050683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markone-tools.com/upload/files/gidupixazedobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0bd0cbac774e5d6ce372cbc20bfe995/19658931186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609830af10343---42695430078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearspace-design.com/CKEdit/upload/files/mufitozepululemofefexozed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=element+mo+periodic+tablePDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e851.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE851 17624 bytes
SHA-256: c7d4367289aa78fef97bbe802a06643de94f7c9b9550f996e4bca0aeeff2ccbb
font_01_sfnt_off0001161f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1161F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E36 10632 bytes
SHA-256: cbb219f10292c29e9089328eedbd52ea59915182c9af22abcfe6824167fcdd89

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