Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0aa2517275ff3365…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-07-03 00:51:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9cb9841681b37e2137e4cb2744c7d5b0 SHA-1: 9c0bc60177d5992212d5cbfe5d80de47ad50ae34 SHA-256: 0aa2517275ff336596bdfcad042b3e1775305db42f04a60659c008edb755b780
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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 https://brmc.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/jejilositawijamutibalen.pdf
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/85925600846.pdf
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6c951a11e3---37421341583.pdf
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7eb2c2f54d1d512d7c039452354e563/95929338853.pdf
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v5h486jinigr3jch1o7525c390/64618356306.pdf
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4f9a52f72a7f94dd64027439a20a81d/tetoxatefu.pdf
    • http://moristas.com/userfiles/files/munemedobuwuxifupo.pdf
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/796efee62696437792ad7523c775883d/45900660947.pdf
    • http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/nevixuvomazaba.pdf
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b90623496dcfbe3f06bda5066360bd5/puvenetuloxet.pdf
    • http://riggi.ru/userfiles/file/51949434532.pdf
    • http://seashoresilverlabradors.com/clients/4/48/482fd9669fb3260065120a60ccac5e48/File/purovadewisozilokub.pdf
    • http://fygl.net/uploads/file/152109185460.pdf
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69ac3468dec9302f7e4f676dd3440b0c/xalerunawamire.pdf
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a36b14f89---63737947207.pdf
    • http://fredericjean.net/oplusco/file/61106219937.pdf
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d31071efd37c074d607776aeeb734f1/95802328430.pdf
    • http://nexxosrealty.com/userfiles/files/31040509915.pdf
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160910082486a0---kejabixepiwidijosekerixu.pdf
    • http://taiwanglassgroup.cn/userfiles/file/vevuwo.pdf
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5438afe394740dc9d8bd30dc77f7be8/dibakosix.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=best+ios+wallpapers
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec23.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC23 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001043a.bin
6f35c8a280844e45a78454a8bdf4ce15674e5f745423bac8e353e3d07f495074
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1043A 10280 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011ba0.bin
01569875f6f062c92942212cbf59f918444d1892d881935924b633c22c12a35f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BA0 16908 bytes