Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1aab903bc06ddd13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-19 10:58:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 9247f31cde5fdf0e514d2c8f4ac6c724 SHA-1: 55d575bbe99a580ed6e20c6026639df2f575063d SHA-256: 1aab903bc06ddd13495a34434200a48bc70548d318e9057819cdbdc2b4dee5b8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://nexxosrealty.com/userfiles/files/jetofulaperigapugi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://waycreon.net/bhaskar/yii/upload/files/vovadetibixidime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.greenlakecruises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9738838405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pop-around.com/file_media/file_image/file/35669455491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139dc9ddbba3---46742977677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161459a24c1c13---lepodedukuxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/75616722256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamma-electronics-eg.com/userfiles/files/tilazitexuroporut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledspectrumthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72219861545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142186148454---xuvomib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poketomecam.com/uploads/files/22134652150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenfountains.com/uplds/file/99163166888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniontsg96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mufezixowawemej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alperbehang.nl/userfiles/file/94834476382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jeneifogaszat.hu/cikkdata/files/99482002738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614604a5c5431---73116207348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valencia.thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/52791525198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atya.eu/files/file/74982275912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quimicasorocolor.com.ve/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guwuzepepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://360global.ca/userfiles/file/91298239183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhjpharm.com/upload/files/zawekisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hosungtour.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210918_1188F42D92CB3D3B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonderful-foods.net/userfiles/file/sowukasejajirakiwezejuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=aggiornare+samsung+galaxy+s+plusPDF 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://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_off0000ddeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDEB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f602.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF602 10792 bytes
SHA-256: bad23f184ca2fbf968e3b735ede4328a0b745b3e8989fcd859c9f1795c1cd5e4
font_02_sfnt_off00010edc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EDC 17696 bytes
SHA-256: 6e9b6125539366949b4d6bc6e39100f9df87d686be1cd3c773a36798e878eb93