Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1aa86bdab671d49a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 13:57:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ef365bc64012379f814557a2f3a41c7a SHA-1: 03132fe4395776bc750c8c6b31cb195c8da7af2a SHA-256: 1aa86bdab671d49ab3f938e7e8a51228bcbb73dc20d9f6e07d1f84408c72a6c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains. The presence of these links suggests the document is designed to lure users to malicious websites for phishing or malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=find+x+from+equation PDF link annotation
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133a7b6f0300---moxekepebosawima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etkenkalip.com/files/lubasowomakukapexedok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maria-galland.ru/files/file/28732956231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613db25f7d832---dovatowalakupobujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firesecurity.sk/userfiles/file/lewijikimesok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161332f5581810---92486773256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://briljant-maleri.se/UserFiles/files/90072279405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolmalatrek.com/userfiles/file/wivefiwujovodak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smirna.pl/files/file/40767323443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landtop.com/filespath/files/20210906033439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sisparts.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/kolowibitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ip-malkov.ru/uploads/files/22053923475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizugy.hu/uploads/files/50323602347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto-rujo.com/images-editor/file/97695576780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stephankeppel.com/userfiles/file/koforekupezogelavemuwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gloteckr.com/upload/editor/file/39653482439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dunakeszi.varosom.hu/userfiles/files/jagitarab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artiguardia.pl/userfiles/file/94412142461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxidmum.com/images/upload/fck/file/bokokojoxodanajojakana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613462b02aa04---38134911838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kymenhome-etsinta.net/tiedostot/files/saserupogobimitakuzolareg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shirbandifelt.com/userfiles/file/wirotaxolonutebebazani.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_off0000b18e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB18E 14596 bytes
SHA-256: b9b434ee8f10794c6a2e986c38c4e1e186cf3b7b1ddfda8b1db85bc34059cbc2
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000edde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDDE 10628 bytes
SHA-256: ea6b17c8e7621e146ee4e610dcdfb4fbffc05a8ed05d51be7278ecfd216811a1