Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6aa0b9f4a63097f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-08-19 16:52:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c795fc751b5b60b2e263f2e2c46305be SHA-1: dd8bbffefee5f0a8ff9775bb01befa14b8c7d04a SHA-256: 6aa0b9f4a63097f2fd3365dee0deef2c29eb2a46d12c339eb5fd3e4f96bb1ece
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and UTM parameters suggests an attempt to obscure the final destination and potentially track user engagement with the phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9726

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://ever-progress.com/upload/files/misidise.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609854c7a18bf---lojugejetikidebaragu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099bf638a52a---20337054794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupafurman.pl/!mag2011/userfiles/file/femosemosem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2af6e3ea9b857c601204a6d9414c15b2/futaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210720120623325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f977a621ae---67099170844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlefreddieking.com/clients/65037/File/tomojuvixifedonozuxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanamihic.com//files/13243824229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ns4n5nqejm5607ijvg1jhcj64u/mavamibosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17371884689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekttorun.pl/pliki/36139680720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/523f26eea06b7e773b3218c8a5360b2a/30402562779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zelene-centrum.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wexupolasanuzipig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brette-animation.com/userfiles/file/83066305466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazdooradda.com/userfiles/file/zenasuxuluvifameki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://virtualcharityevents.com/vce_cake/files/files/13844198949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/mavatejekoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faw-asia.com/image/upload/files/54864832511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca9777d905---96380382378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d79931257d4---6431789232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://achilleferolla.it/userfiles/files/mojine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0a0e1bc2b---5395331303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086d57bca354---77092068010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/pireleloxuvonediwukig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49858afffbf521e6853ca3fb01aeb8fd/42380481095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=harry+potter+and+the+chamber+of+secrets+basilisk+scenePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f4fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4FC 11220 bytes
SHA-256: 8ea8ae375a2bd25624de5b0a5b0d48860e1092226f450ea820ecec9d073b8d3a
font_01_sfnt_off00010ec6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EC6 3000 bytes
SHA-256: 026009b798dec275a232127aac24b73b3e97aca324fee46669dc203572bda3e5
font_02_sfnt_off00011b02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B02 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00013314.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13314 17232 bytes
SHA-256: 5e88dbc600fef9fc9be858c85627a720e65db373eec05ad8a8411129d4c8f33f