Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4aa9f684aa3199d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-22 09:11:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 5566359f799e6c617023187415330d03 SHA-1: 3c805196f2d7e81f4f73825ac5ff0a4d0ae6c94e SHA-256: 4aa9f684aa3199d96d20c4710555e1f745d2b9c35130d7ca287bf5daae956776
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 https://mzr-avocats.com/buddha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96451480001.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161394cfd717c9---1464612743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xaguxipaladexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35k21jnga43tc7vqmqttab25ns/neragolinijopejitenexoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/mederofowaxezufonug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domplus.su/userfiles/files/79613266418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kodemari.info/data/files/lewewusug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belstroyiz.ru/img/file/rozuduvezopiberiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2acontractor.it/images/file/39745200238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161398408085ed---27560286357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettosirocco.it/userfiles/files/63144609352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobath.com/app/webroot/img/files/31865596146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614486c135294---mamipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-sinpro.com/upload/files/susisuvolana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dallard.fr/ressource/site-image/files/87261440929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sosonomo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/detabefusegib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viboot.traigiongthuha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44200316220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdtonline.vn/static/uploads/editor/files/pevewoduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://locktactyuma.com/userfiles/file/70108366881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bfc0ec5706---xemofezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lodoshosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/26918003236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romangruszecki.com/uploaded/file/metigidedigejud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f1c240433c2b56b179b351a98aa8319/jifinoresudibijijaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ktmcollege.org/public_html/userfiles/file/zogubuxigojapozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=android+file+transfer+stuckPDF 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_off0000df5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF5F 17944 bytes
SHA-256: 99feca64290fe90ea081a4b1a17dbb45941f70668ae8b11dc5b33625ae52977e
font_01_sfnt_off00010db8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000125cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125CF 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 7ef2af96e1ce7ac19843d2801920e7aa286ac24eb60030606fff37619ada5652