Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4aab0902eb4f7368…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-08-31 02:07:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 70a40bd4c9392cfe51a47589dc7cbdf8 SHA-1: 247299dc4e05a32fe317f20ddcbe7910ffb424ba SHA-256: 4aab0902eb4f73685e17a6b66f619f728dbae5298e0a8ffeef50f52636e56873
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics supports the classification as a malicious link distribution mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://kbchina.de/upload/nukuxadaminobevofanim.pdf
    • https://billionbosses.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wajuzuwojikexenala.pdf
    • http://opusbiz.kr/data/editor/file/155329206610faf1dd4ff1.pdf
    • https://balaji-technology.com/userfiles/file/vobanefevodoxurikit.pdf
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757055c53d5---kupafitajujekawu.pdf
    • https://total-sport.pl/img/upload/files/16280560762.pdf
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b6989b800---89085503110.pdf
    • https://autotronics.vn/userfiles/file/88141585879.pdf
    • http://beachfirebrands.com/userfiles/file/95458677439.pdf
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c10f339ba46---buwunu.pdf
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7cb9174e3b---diwupikazubonazakukak.pdf
    • https://ferropula.hr/files/dekiduzoridewupusexil.pdf
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160738848035b2---jutopagafebipovomo.pdf
    • http://xn--80aafkatcapceshpicpg3h.xn--p1ai/pict/file/ninetesipuxitil.pdf
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26e5c3492a15b11850ace314e82aee7d/kivetiti.pdf
    • https://www.artikel238.nl/emmwebbit/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27966982496.pdf
    • http://sissonne.hu/editor_up/pomolezorimenosadidodes.pdf
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea70e668e4---15290447348.pdf
    • http://tonioloclaudio.it/userfiles/files/ferenukufin.pdf
    • http://usefchina.com/uploadfile/file///2021081716524482.pdf
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/46605638733.pdf
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caa4b62ab0260659d10cbe7156cda65e/82927409221.pdf
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gdrbsi3h8no3bm4b127lop1dgh/18264997594.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=a+first+course+in+abstract+algebra+solutions+manual+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d5b3.bin
1321917f0b8210c86a86805b7a4790cae1e51412adb00a5fc1d51896cbab299b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5B3 11184 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef74.bin
8766413e1a32cd664e74d201be78cd474c2928d1c8a8a0f0328275befa77c664
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF74 21980 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000127f7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127F7 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00014004.bin
6a5346a6d0f9af60a213d5141277f39e7c980664e59ed242a90b63afcd3915ff
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14004 2096 bytes