Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1aaf33665937c35c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:53:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 2fb2c30b1224610422113efcc06c5cfe SHA-1: e60c94e79d52713549c61f4a556fb7ba0250efeb SHA-256: 1aaf33665937c35cf97ef9d1987996de2c180e5e36fa0d84ed29081d30ced398
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests the document is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=subtraction+worksheets+with+regrouping+word+problems PDF link annotation
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a252d9951f7424f9b40b7f37ead22f66/selazamafonifavadifil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/xuzoxivafuragoxufuvexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608362aca1180---zaruwanodurulerupufodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korsorlampang.net/user_img/files/76979025016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607381277c688---94549524222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autobedrijvenindex.nl/images/uploads/70686236687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc90697c4e5---jujetipaxumuxilurogoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northmarking.com/userfiles/files/pekaroxevojozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/88623356634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heryeryesil.com/resimlerfiles/tapoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mycocoa.org/images/upload/files/83733271187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rdsdealers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tapuzazugigawog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromatographvials.com/d/files/nufenawufaneliner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2m2design.com/userfiles/55529664305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birizgardenhotel.com/userfiles/file/punomuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telenovella-bg.com/files/fukefobirelusiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1bd73e0cb0870503605e106c55f41fc/wamuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuboni.com/uploadfile/hong202107212326188145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pergamine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74937462501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/999e308ec5c47628d938b69d07c06590/gidufulibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e85de9d28b---juxilonininakat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/65510064023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6931a8011e551b7fbf62c6ed5598825c/karedusepajuzogerebobexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiramisu-o.com/yamituki-n/uploads/files/tewetatuzaxupixanezina.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_off0000e98b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE98B 11456 bytes
SHA-256: fcfe8993ce8b46d57723ef20ee6c55278287147f566937b596791a4ca22415d9
font_01_sfnt_off00010408.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10408 18160 bytes
SHA-256: d3158f09fcdcb8ec980d601a468df22f2b916242609e452b47f80f898654e944
font_02_sfnt_off0001339a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1339A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1