Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2aa9b8994bb8ab1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 01:45:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 67a3ff77076fee104ca8a972932cc3e7 SHA-1: ba4087e6a0a6eeffab0ba10c2258e9db156d7750 SHA-256: 2aa9b8994bb8ab1bab0232e8b64519ccd33e86135f9faf1a31973cf9f7f45508
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 phishing attempt. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The PDF structure and embedded URLs are consistent with a phishing lure, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+characteristic+curves+of+a+centrifugal+pump+plots+required+by+the+pump PDF link annotation
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af1d198e104---veputojufita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2p1qbi9s721nf4gkdv9vq8u85/45426636209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclameindex.nl/images/uploads/bowoxufibudalokajesokigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muszempilla.com/files/file/61375061549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d715ce125---sanig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74a119b5f834381b768641f9da2e4a9e/tanivoluvewirisusafesejiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/989migfhsc37s2tgf9kh4oegu0/74945424670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jodhpurtravels.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/22928234589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781373b201b---bakefovabaxibuginasarubin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c150910c68d---bapugasivom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcus-1.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210618_28DCA10C284CF12C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/41608316058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae94c1e441b---68734478884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipiland.net/upload/file/kuserukutibonifogimos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/82896231694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e55624f43e326b45f852af0d35e4ff9/votorifadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayzerfamilyreunion.com/clients/0/08/08e2d5bcffca37c2e1a82d364f4296c6/File/75902356517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetachikappasigmaalumni.org/clients/5/56/56ac51e2ee760b54d3ff8b7d53c877b7/File/jawawumojikidat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/907644218d1ef505aeb69f604713987d/66068575084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.de/userfiles/file/jelinoligukan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071aa64b1f71---fironuwulafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ppi33o0pdjabtn99vnc50jvfui/26091168297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4734e77bc5917a7307e14332a18d22e/petetidunoreduferil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b192f29fd2561cb7e4fbf0267de7e03/zobalagifazu.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_off0000e9e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9E4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000101fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101FB 11596 bytes
SHA-256: 65614640ff1f77b13a3c06d19941a436b979af58034b9bbdf29ae8cbe77a555a
font_02_sfnt_off00011ca5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CA5 19032 bytes
SHA-256: 2a2ef858c6c4a7a132fa2e8693940e7855c5d1c0606ef491d6c4262790ea2556