Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5aa306cf8631eda9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-08-15 01:55:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 927b3757b457dbc4795cc7bbe5a289bc SHA-1: 621bfe44aa17a90b03f824a341d3316f8a2b7ee8 SHA-256: 5aa306cf8631eda97f9fb252e22b098f761b4f2dbf0a51cfe3f95716fa0677a2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. These links are likely intended to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://tasivn.com/upload/ck/files/52207879140.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alrehabourhome.com/userfiles/files/1159105581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e7ae4cc96---wivojesibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61b9679803779160b6223e5c298115c5/13861676790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609271df94845---46182793333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e342ab031---jipifaxenewabunevetaladun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cft2qkm167mi3sf4n5rh3m97ve/56954002643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af83838bec93268fabc485fc5992a60f/votogudakabuwan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fbhsclassof70.com/clients/f/f6/f6e65d48c6cf753e26882f86001d336b/File/74992553777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlh.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/14476906709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/9308756642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/xubewisazesuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160824f343136b---losup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fonnepal.org/userfiles/file/85704600292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicobonoli.com/userfiles/files/sisagukipejojenusubeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o6dt8u81lt4eelamtlsi7nn6vo/87517769778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://think6.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210719101120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079323b4fd60---12441849790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafehinglung.com/uploads/files/lesurajipabupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gps-ambroisie.com/ressource/site-image/files/wixisadabarexigasidudul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quaint-house.com/images/blog//file/7390826937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=problemas+de+olimpiadas+de+matematicas+para+secundaria+resueltos+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/livavikusapej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ca33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA33 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 2a1820783f9b87bab0c339202c97505a95b547d848a10eb817ef6cb0f183d161
font_01_sfnt_off0000e392.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE392 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fba4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBA4 17124 bytes
SHA-256: 48724803bcc177fae1a81f1769d4fb131809cb420f9fb58e5d7e7a0eb55c681f