Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2aa8b6a6d7030855…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.4 KB Created: 2021-08-10 00:53:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 856ec1f6ce8a33f6650d06e24a7e24b0 SHA-1: 1af8cfc8733827b6a207b91a63f102943ef5d5cd SHA-256: 2aa8b6a6d70308559040d5f5ba80567a76a93a0148b743857667df52995d962a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs and link farm indicators suggest a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The file's structure and content, despite being heavily obfuscated, point towards an exploit delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mini+australian+shepherd+puppies+for+sale+in+houston+texas PDF link annotation
    • http://mail-business.ru/uploads/file/79940665873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fruitvita.com/files/files/ranukodefiragirukefonof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b0078aef5---xonadopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/42031946520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sequoia59.com/clients/867919/File/diraxapitinodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nipissing-lodge.com/clients/b/be/be32fa5c9d1e5a871f1efa0d35b29fe7/File/64692273820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcb6d093122---17233814143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eef8a2817e---jonezogixojokorukuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085fa04d433e---wibiluwoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e375a105c00064dc2989698d6fef77a/33997022601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reanda.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210725235250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094df65042a0---wajuvagetarizisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogaarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/zajonufetine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a48774acc26---dolatififawuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i526o83tc8g8nur2vo6nep9a12/nodesevoxazoboxiwujap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c863cd91314---mukiwulef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triangle-electronics.com/assets/userfiles/file/pozuzugidizorilalixizoniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hublihorse.com/uploads/userfiles/files/zemik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b300ecc8464---kusafopemopodanifibenuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e079618dc93e7d27ed48787331e4f0a5/70292101775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phayaotechno.com/UserFiles/File/93207825784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneofitou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuvarazizerosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/30514028419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12d1dbdc2918daad76b6ad002f7a5bbc/38653317822.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_off000127ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127AD 18140 bytes
SHA-256: 06fdf5183253bfea025349315efb77840d5a0214806e0d432ffa5af8daaae0e1
font_01_sfnt_off00015783.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15783 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016f9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16F9A 10792 bytes
SHA-256: ca970b495aa2f602f658522ad724e26acd159632c920145f5d1aad117289589c