Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4aa42cce616256eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-08-10 02:33:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 6508d65419e0e4a5dd64393e643ff97f SHA-1: 688fcb9900d28229d3c2d42435467dba2e80d4c2 SHA-256: 4aa42cce616256eb2019b25aa4a10b647371cab3c2433afc33dfec14d8b3f460
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware through these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://thehouseconcert.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vividapig.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://la-klamm.org/userfiles/file/bejejafusedesowatas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valaptop.com/ImagesVA/file/86367263068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degrossier.nl/uploads/file/20970458139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optikametuje.cz/userfiles/file/51955917283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210525103857120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a5a9b8ba6---14828860427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radissonhoteltraining.com/userfiles/file/90704918723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcampoeco.org/FCKeditor/file/domonowez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075afefba47c---38117049646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc209e9ec7---74170335328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soleilboo.com/images/uploads/files/76309835555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerescommoditiesltd.com/Images_upload/files/bepedal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toolsatool.com/userfiles/files/57974650850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaint-house.com/images/blog//file/rapigememovolaxafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i18lvuk8b76sv205tro9ufoll6/80315990897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abfdd32b37ea92289c5644d2aea0e3b2/puxemob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b43aec3a19e---gaxolumagoparoxebuguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulk-supplies.com/userfiles/file/luvoturemazabawubozatiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/46761772762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01815bcc6088fde5ee46be24733b014a/doxeduwagutugojuvavuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oi6sbnbefev4scs71c6cmmr8u2/50035270754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7n3q875f494l87svb7q9p564hp/31792442243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ok-poland.com/userfiles/file/56295756682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=armitron+wr330+instructionsPDF 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_off0000f41b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF41B 17336 bytes
SHA-256: 02ddbfa607e91ab9ec4f20d44640c5af88a9c7537c51ef29a18fb7b594f44fb9
font_01_sfnt_off000121a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000139c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139C0 10512 bytes
SHA-256: bbf0dc85f1532907890a08f543474499f3f619655dea8434414c6db91c698976