Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4aafe402827d9976…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 04:12:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e202198e8163e2951784139cc924d37b SHA-1: f3ae7deb7a505e24f676c30dee2c944a8183cb1b SHA-256: 4aafe402827d99760e4c4655e11aaf75a8c4d0a5d3c66ab7faf40c35dd4dc91b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. Static analysis revealed it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites. Several of these URLs are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a likely attempt to lure users to malicious or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://sibmetiz.ru/upload_picture/59481324682.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dalton-english.com/userfiles/file/vasufaxotolato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carneslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zomeguwifuxitikokubofif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/moxapumeweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ad588ad46---duwenozegosor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencshoworganizasyon.com/upload/ckfinder/files/83624716800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptaki.info/imgekoprojekty/files/xukovumula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/63505913463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/28264764613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9gvc5npsgu1l3n54oss6mftk9/26511314647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094441057899---44326018944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://breakevenpoint.pl/uploads/editor/file/31215980119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3drm.bg/uploads/pictures/files/86251183801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hantverksakuten.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xanopatubodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifetides.ca/cambridge/uploads/files/381199289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikankara.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c472dd5f78---debeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab64647cd0807b2ffe65513567f83320/fibufoxujugogubesebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iraneto.com/basefile/iranetocom/files/68778073430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3bd8ad4203203be519fbea034299aee/puturazokimotudovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/955dfa3aec43c0413cc5828394abad3e/10044478068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bde06c80995---35677955663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cycling-software.com/files/file/74358007175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evolutionchonburi.com/userfiles/files/vinowidimenisofisikutik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdlpartnerss.com/userfiles/file/defuxomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc5fd25f1e---jemudutepuwudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=marina+abramovic+book+pdfPDF 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_off0000ec10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC10 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010427.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10427 10628 bytes
SHA-256: e3212cae673a1ec2795af04b7c81fa9afa187c68947399e7d36f987f1152b942
font_02_sfnt_off00011c37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C37 20416 bytes
SHA-256: 80d7a6376d717148ad9f14345a90f978d610d7cdeeba0ea856f6e533c78ca418