Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5aa08a35152e8298…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.6 KB Created: 2021-06-24 16:21:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: baa96acbdd2d6a68ec8519c2c129654d SHA-1: a92afacf10cea27b07913ba924976ba0f9db73ce SHA-256: 5aa08a35152e8298ec1e42ce4667b5e9d4fe3a95c91fe9eee0b34ac8f6cc45dc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1f2804fad0---3168788735.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ukdirectremovals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a08e4f223a7713bd1d7ab936e1d615d2/sutiromelaresu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5728764913f12d02f17eef062bc209c/3499241099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/22418420927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a044e4ccd36---fitosajozifusuxerokinasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/293378a48288a11b36cb0c562cc46aa7/pibetazukiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b1a873b68a6cc151e0bfaa66e39bf62/gatuvemufofuwep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qv1of3cghldvls0uf7g5mq4cje/71051946313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84b0d93fd0d7f8487f660afe7857b1a5/bezurinipabenokem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jordanadams.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8303986118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6a9ccd777---71071361873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096669f281bc---puguzokaxugoreluwezawad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksboutlet.com/file/files/linif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2d207b6dab---43062216722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083dec7622b2---dufafefub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/nutevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ed77ed58cc---15839775121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://103.63.157.58/In PDF document text
    • http://amrbd.com/In PDF document text
    • http://banglaflix.com.bdIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=nagordola+ftp+server+bdPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00018037.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18037 5380 bytes
SHA-256: fc37693621ffa91b524be305ce78594fe36639ad2b5ac70fc1852a7f2dc66b59
font_01_sfnt_off0001929a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1929A 28100 bytes
SHA-256: 5c46da80c9fb71eb3b1ba5e20783d84a6358ed5dcfbd6536bc54fbed277e6880
font_02_sfnt_off0001dae4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DAE4 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 31b59ac2e4cbc1e2d2a53d8788eb13c9490ba5c048a05069807e34e954349b70
font_03_sfnt_off0001ffac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1FFAC 16204 bytes
SHA-256: e93acd332f5893643511f4cefd38969ad5c744ad1b08842a788b6be7d277dd15