Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5aaadde35d97841c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-16 13:59:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3672ae96bd396798c8458e7847a679ad SHA-1: d6e913903ba88745a3f57b7b912ff17bfaa7bcba SHA-256: 5aaadde35d97841c5b02b0c390f7a62a60fe819b08b49756179abbbed7db74c0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of multiple heuristics related to PDF link farms and compromised CMS uploads, along with embedded URLs pointing to potentially malicious content, suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains elements that, combined with the heuristics, point towards a lure for downloading further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=my+files+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161428e1e67eb0---19794741243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teleinwestor.pl/userfiles/file/20707902249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba467d90b5db727c1d4f32455ba00e6a/wazegibax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32381226511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30257ba6f26b3f1d23884b2bad63aea4/80076009989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://versobrokers.eu/userfiles/files/98543357233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsahimmongol.com/uploads/images/files/zemesawotufizoneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuivaivietnam.com/uploads/files/pazudijomizukozezowax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80affcyoc0ac1f6a.xn--p1ai/admin/modules/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86541457182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transcash.com/ci/userfiles/files/nopuseruxaxanidomedovaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manorhair.com/uploads/files/202109040348065909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/roxokam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fruitssupplier.com/app/webroot/img/files/zamefiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efbac1210e3c25733dda35573d298623/65216206498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e14bbd68df---42446138032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yearbookplus.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/pivagupuxipifofolelipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5glcao3a2uuop4769t825nrkk7/setuzixavewumilex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ariconium.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zoguwevawakutefeturosak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.77ice.com/upload/files/xibakimuruziwutudobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://treasurehunterdetectors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dagixaxatev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emailing-online.fr/uploads/userfiles/file/46414931590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kopari.hu/files/file/risodunitosup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f06c60f951---96955321749.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_off0000dea0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEA0 10128 bytes
SHA-256: 571e4b75b1ffa998e4719e39f063238df92a556fefe9e204357efadee1cac646
font_01_sfnt_off0000f569.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF569 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010d7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D7B 19076 bytes
SHA-256: 95305fb59d6641ec91d8133df2cfa95142314d46ee30eec2f00f1398fb9fb523