Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3aa54813e384f3f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:30:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: cfb4000abbacc4584a8f013cc25dd544 SHA-1: 60f28b345c9a1ca6e5c9fb6bc5601e0a33731939 SHA-256: 3aa54813e384f3f04050f86e3ee3c3248578e3f6529a027672209d9e9319627a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to other PDFs hosted on compromised websites. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a690510b3434bacd95fa05161c665e16/99918401525.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sanaspinler.net/calisma2/files/uploads/zenejajobot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tolgyesvolgy.hu/userfiles/file/43281383492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9d0205308---beletadukowukusisoxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7a5b8eaf3a---69734187244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6aaad9b10---62709921293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magnachip.cn/userfiles/file/20210522225912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f1919536fc---pubefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawrence-spruill.com/clients/42275/File/mawisotojibejabituw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1agpbmdtf.xn--p1ai/upload/file/bobikaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bda3d2c7e08---13339360382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/404777d36b0debb810619e035fb77bb7/vobegixulidojitun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shiokerbau1.com/contents/files/22983209689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vestmorecapital.com/images/epost/68379696135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angeladaniel.de/uploads/files/4505561159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://principesgs.com/userfiles/file/18851398809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64ec2d5805ad944cbf78cacea56cb3ca/bibugezanozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beysukonaklari.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kotesofevakuxotiregez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e45f986f26446c10f42a1281d06a786/91375741515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidlbrooks.com/clients/868292/File/9525903953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7721ff855f65dd0faacc7e43c5bc6a74/77672821372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eef80e3439a83d0d9df75ac2de8886a6/buvamakede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612031d6daf0d---70527220559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddc56c3fac781937d2af6491ca4d246c/85909643283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6da03d37ec---gedegiginepadirulifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=cutepdf+printer+download+filehippoPDF 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_off0000ceff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEFF 17156 bytes
SHA-256: 9f32ef7bd3091ed96625463efe1fad0dddd846856a584bf3ce8cc82e9e6816fc
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB6A 10644 bytes
SHA-256: c8509f6d71c9925c93be9d9f84dd651442661564f5c3743a5d479cbbebc741c6
font_02_sfnt_off000113b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1