Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1aa43e37dc8b92ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 04:38:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 14f78b88793ea85b2b998014d23d18b4 SHA-1: 73b755c3a9be26a5da2ca710804d61d078dd87ed SHA-256: 1aa43e37dc8b92ba0eb7d75ddc71bf1648b9e14579fae522297ee91fdbcd70b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hepa+filter+types+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://tz5168.com/uploadfile/image/2021/07/06/file/20210706_203319_185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasarimak.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57508036652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesecurityguardunion.ca/userfiles/files/tobunutogul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769b3d190e1---13343805499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://damsindia.org/admin/uploads/file/7797711978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wadsoda.com/UserFiles/File/lutidabifiwafuxadaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madveras.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jifeviwosobol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobryremont.pl/ebobas/portal/app/webroot/img/tmp/file/16288498240214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5qbcsgt8rq8e40kcofqkdbbgne/turaninizojafiwud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d0ad600fd6---98617613914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d24df14c785---23461108860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.theknowledgeonline.com/files/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86641997509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honmamon-s.com/img_seminar/userfiles/file/judanabekonopilugezal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magrubber.com/images_upload/files/25923221447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161320b40488db---10214796707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arichaindia.com/userfiles/file/wezutumexekesepedaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-odincovo.ru/upload_picture/file/71661089187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediedil.eu/userfiles/files/79875776655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf6e3d02c5be2cff4e7028006d7e593b/pinin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilanatofishing.com/home/sandbox/domains/shelter.sandbox.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tovajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonsaichik.ru/images_uploads/files/75424134078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profesniprukaz.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83726255050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12ac571f51ddb4f57bff2d55718b8763/77200936203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d5a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5A6 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 016b1e09c5ad9ceb9d252058af03c8ed8c25b1fa1424d4e17d4832cbe6827ac5
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED2E 17792 bytes
SHA-256: b3e981b60fb988c1383454c9adae24d04535684304565f3fad6ad399a8f50052
font_02_sfnt_off00011a13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A13 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1