Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1aa8af41f6f38b44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.7 KB Created: 2021-06-19 09:26:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f93155618f695276782fc4bb3fca2eb8 SHA-1: bba07b0f19f88502147b5a3490aa42fc5ad04d8c SHA-256: 1aa8af41f6f38b44eeb3272ed61b5c0283c62b50c4a9a3ce1694a37d953cacca
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal that the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of a 'download' call-to-action further supports the attack pattern of luring users to download a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/faab9d5f8e662099429e08eb09fd9fae/joked.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/30719942829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joebalogh.ro/imagini_ws/13729076181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warraichmeats.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833d4c39d20---jalorajejipabowuxurovipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b9e349171ebfe68a2c3d26ac66bfd21/tipazotoxusisewupinat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhiinverter.com/media/ftp/file/28932448545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/magazovobowojojizunaxepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/48503569062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f59624717d---mekexamuxilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6212ebfe0e3ce4db8e1695896d95d97a/zelegozaxojonev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e772b753f1---waduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rainbowcaterers.in/userfiles/file/46556362792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077e88a18692---46713569751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/musivobafatulobirovawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemeckystrakac.sk/editor_uploads/files/34610581064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silesiacapital.eu/data/file/mimaviwewamubabepulefiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=download+atf+box+setupPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000acd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xACD6 5236 bytes
SHA-256: 022a335eec5051eab7af3418d35515f524b8a474ccd787fd34478fc69f3e3133
font_01_sfnt_off0000bed9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBED9 9080 bytes
SHA-256: 95f7365315828dd4fda690a8cf40fc93556418e4f3160f211e39e7beb1f5ebc3