Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3aa0c136d032fdac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-10 16:01:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 586100ff9f1c55069e95417254a70fd4 SHA-1: 8d9159a002e2fb32749b874ff698922b2d17a2f5 SHA-256: 3aa0c136d032fdacfdff6582853fe17ff92f0e0e654325960aaf3d9e7f868d06
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://studioambienteterritorio.it/userfiles/files/17221401251.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d446044097153bd1bef90e945b1e1d99/6925704429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaas-journal.org/survey/userfiles/files/39448879558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matao.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/11965415371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orderpoet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80602997678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://misbahelmudii.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72125499768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133b14885db1---fotezojepuvuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalabsrl.it/userfiles/files/68288722549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://llbyggodesign.se/UserFiles/files/69516076765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s7cu787b805a3t3qgh9r7pmc81/79336865173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613856f3422ca---zijura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc6bf409b1f44bbfc0fb6be653c56630/saxigumoxugupirij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto4-spb.ru/public/images/ckfinder/files/2514361497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1c14661c5a99dcc163db9c149f4e2e2/sejevivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelausiere.com/upload/editor/file/1653135412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.amanuttarakhand.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zalisebizoweginubazakif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wtmasonry.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8840157883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elhammagazine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94668578566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamepinleri.com/calisma2/files/uploads/21754966072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelindigha.com/FCKeditor/file/711127313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgpharma.in/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lapugesabesekavulat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krishikhabar.net/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/musujukizis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/potexenisakedesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/46435851422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnt52.ru/userfiles/file/35363845857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=d+day+unlimited+money+downloadPDF 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_off0000e359.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE359 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB70 10440 bytes
SHA-256: b177fbd03f2f4598707ac3e44ea095b21df0596dfdfe3e424bb4b4074e1266ae
font_02_sfnt_off00011317.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11317 17244 bytes
SHA-256: 7f8a4d71fe83917d2bfa0ec3dbf7ce996daac245f8f09c10d3dfc17065a8d7a3