Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3aef7902e52dd108…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:58:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9793b6732957af5362dc8cb888684370 SHA-1: c9cfca234bd70b36816c5d2af07fce494a89088c SHA-256: 3aef7902e52dd108882ee299063f994fb657e0438eae01e5fd0d48d8b488bb82
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external files, many hosted on compromised CMS upload storage and disposable domains, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure of downloading a malicious file. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, likely a phishing or trojan distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://innotack.com/userfiles/file/65670014953.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uf9d7ttljfg8s77573jp3g6gfr/40934359227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hai-bi.com/uploads/files/202109060600119586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumcsp.com/uploads/files/wadowawikerodizamiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.net/contents//files/94217945331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demircanticaret.com/userfiles/file/wabelowirumub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eqo1l9fvfu2diu9be0tqeajv85/65716684599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6f25e0cc4f774f5ac3d570e1a3717cb/ninewosifesotozare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c8eda8f54---zakapuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://girisimcilikproje.com/resimler/files/20686641480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurogeographyjournal.eu/admin/fckfiles/file/70018395384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coolingrealestate.com/your-home-cleaner/FCKuploads/file/32338822803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chinese-wall.tw/upload/files/gumogiwuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecompletecontact.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nudutorifuzegepofuvepava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eaae184612---livaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075dccf3ce64---fesesoreduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9psk3bjn7dcl4k76i40kpa3vd2/24782892820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wintec-samu.hu/uploads/files/dixosil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781475eb8ec---telekotoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solartgaleria.hu/images/file/wezikanurij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://francescasciortino.it/userfiles/files/ruwabopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutstudio.it/userfiles/file/64298995074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a21273ec007---bixeranaxuten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tanthueviet.vn/img_data/files/nilobojojexiwebidedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topimmigrationlawyer.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58193502821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+convertidor+de+word+a+pdf+smallPDF 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_off0000d8af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0C1 16672 bytes
SHA-256: 6dc77c5db97e4db6d61926a5473772bf15b652c05d9a08f84221a11f1006b5c5
font_02_sfnt_off00011ba5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BA5 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 508f94b7a6e56f0eba01522bcf6a89d08b4fb9466fa8ef88a4989024214a329e