Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1aaa38a7301d31c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-14 18:29:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9ebcd652a661a1017d45c8c960029388 SHA-1: f2ac67567192ae3399c993a31ca2416af2fa4dc5 SHA-256: 1aaa38a7301d31c8fd6c86befeab4c744aa9d61e379d581b47d7d31a192e3bf4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm used to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF structure and the presence of external URIs strongly suggest it's part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f4025e4186---99449569852.pdf
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161301bf9ebfd8---21471116220.pdf
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a85209b5ba---19520690670.pdf
    • http://www.mariabeckmann.com/fotos/uploads/files/38143820932.pdf
    • http://dalnoboy.org/data/filestorage/upload/files/nurijujaloliraxetu.pdf
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f37d081305---lusalib.pdf
    • http://ktai.lmg.jp/upload/file/dovikakawe.pdf
    • https://sgicorp.com/userfiles/files/xiseliminibib.pdf
    • https://istruttorecinofilo.it/userfiles/file/vonawosokuki.pdf
    • http://travellerisland.com/files/50642554309.pdf
    • http://club-integra.ru/userfiles/file/62364520726.pdf
    • http://khachsansapa.vn/webroot/img/files/zexuwijarigilewuwuje.pdf
    • http://azizavacanze.com/userfiles/files/28248914390.pdf
    • http://medwin.kr/userData/board/file/27521108896.pdf
    • http://yenidenyuzlendirme.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68848194138.pdf
    • http://vibestedu.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/gejisazuloveluvuneli.pdf
    • https://marupyara.com/fotos/userfiles/file/29992293206.pdf
    • http://ffarchitettura.it/userfiles/files/xurudesufafedaki.pdf
    • https://taxfirma.com/userfiles/file/24290813897.pdf
    • http://patrickstaxi.fr/userfiles/file/domedu.pdf
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133453931e98---jekenodiwe.pdf
    • http://lpkgoodframeupvc.com/userfiles/files/77401951582.pdf
    • http://gzky.cn/dubeite/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210902_044931.pdf
    • https://legend-chang.com/UserFiles/files/likegur.pdf
    • https://jakspravnenapsa.cz/userfiles/file/94408900621.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=2+letter+words+starting+with+a
    • 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_off0000da79.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA79 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f290.bin
de2be9132e5331a9f3b074108eb6eb3cb781017dee285df2c4e62c314959dfa3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF290 10636 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010ab5.bin
2170b1046570767d7603668b072f492b766d286cd05f5a35f93e35164ab7a80b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AB5 17748 bytes