Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4aa28ed3c95fbbc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-07-17 23:43:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 3c42d79dd59ad10cce5af0adefb6ac6d SHA-1: 9764398fa20602510b1b7c993e1a36d9c67a75ec SHA-256: 4aa28ed3c95fbbc8c4ca9ecdd13088c2d7e35c32bb2ec7527e77bf8c594f803d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple distinct hosts, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/47298093034.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aae9d837ae---22308636409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53545ed232a1ce5d56fea13d7fe5fb5e/58767413484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/jobijolamafazub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u9feev8qitdnkeanjkkm7p3853/zitategelapimenokiwelene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b2a558433e3f15eeb68c71df0b39bd8/18332440942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e5e4b7b10---71124020911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cfd8bd2c2e---61056551593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/xonivujoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b2110be0c---55475984184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abyway.lv/images/ck_images/files/migulomogubulifekebarazog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a41bba633bc---tazina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7fc4266276---2693595041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/sonakiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srinivasagroup.com/ci/userfiles/files/vekinob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlxzkj.com/uploads/file/300544348385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/44262325826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://home-delighted.com/user_img/files/xoxinofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9f5e85cc9---janubitasume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/95043324174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceral.pl/ceral/pliki/file/ganuvosuduwitefarosageb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b789ed65456---36309364662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soportedevida.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/woxugozevoxipikoxoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dca903e857d8407a52cb8456d1f29a40/gapupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083841be43ad---892194606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=cm3+to+millilitersPDF 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_off0000bd41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD41 16296 bytes
SHA-256: 2ff042199dbaea4bdeed4f7343de43d64b69674f60dc10410c9b40cda7dcae0c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e78e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE78E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFA5 10208 bytes
SHA-256: 5d67de74bc469beb98df4f03564e04e0a6e0913ffe3120fc695b0af283d57df5