Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1aa7c1700bbb580a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 11:51:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8face73c8c3abe31b5235acf6868d46d SHA-1: a21c4511563b096e5ce2de271aae46aa2075661a SHA-256: 1aa7c1700bbb580ae9f7cc9ca89cf7b952a8cb685d74f6d9b01387d27852c0a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to a variety of domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicate a pattern of using these links for malicious purposes, likely phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=poliana+livro+pdf
    • http://vaness-sens.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72159348444.pdf
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1956c9fe6d---41468594466.pdf
    • http://nemochem.cn/upload/files/ruxekisigik.pdf
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a26a2bf0c22---25557484049.pdf
    • http://tsrmvolontari.it/userfiles/files/dopizupugugubagisopum.pdf
    • https://nabijdefossa.nl/upload/files/45847721433.pdf
    • https://amadesafar.ir/basefile/amadesafarir/files/zutanitolunitigifinud.pdf
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d4e5937e231cee625583c0ec613f72d/49521128777.pdf
    • http://studioingtassinari.eu/userfiles/files/53449427925.pdf
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c822851923---dasaturejiramujopujifu.pdf
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac7d3b39bd---8886664694.pdf
    • https://i-try.tw/upfile/files/2021/09/01/felamisuvikenasigerezuxo.pdf
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612b3807a656c---gisagagavo.pdf
    • http://taborcapitalpayment.com/clients/d/d0/d0a3925ee25d0adc8806453b18bccccc/File/juxupesirimuwamesakut.pdf
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e4a8b99f41cb50ab93260cb3fe35efc/36289260123.pdf
    • https://ayurvedaemart.com/uploads/file/93319864007.pdf
    • http://www.udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85453391403.pdf
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/5400894691.pdf
    • https://gelblighting.com/userfiles/files/73213418043.pdf
    • https://bakwanudang.com/contents//files/jirobiwepezenos.pdf
    • http://meimagedance.tw/ufiles/files/878227909.pdf
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8i9ffcs3i3ht845rdambm4kkf7/34248334576.pdf
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/96484442758.pdf
    • 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_off0000cc70.bin
480cbd9b8d0451a891a854b5044301420215e110b101f4f32eecee45740d37d3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC70 18100 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb1c.bin
a0c1a7ef618e4cf388ed62eafe9e0a8eb75081f1551c955d44f6c9a70a7ff43f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB1C 10160 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000111de.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111DE 16792 bytes