Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6aa37307ad24f315…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 15:16:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 372d230b6bd3bb0440f890e144d7ba72 SHA-1: 9b53709e180ef10fc73763bcb592b21132dc2dd8 SHA-256: 6aa37307ad24f315ea8acc5ef0a5607ed30a933aa87a4fa54b9bed3ebd9c910c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to potentially malicious or phishing content hosted on these sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=protocol+rip+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9bc2ccf9d4---525394722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/34743660183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosgratuitosonline.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jd54g21ivdmd8nvi0ev1025mkq/42194984498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caigeshi.com/uploadfile/file/2021060220530873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atvatextile.com/upload/ckfinder/files/nibuwawidifinado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metallpress.info/files/xosepiregeforetusudogur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenstatues.com/uplds/file/29970539854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veitali.com/upload/files/66556807212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/511bb2745e814bf3ca116563394c3624/17268827484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784a7be0c61---54029664291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1222f05136b8b9ee8554d443d68be397/86826910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nature-revive.org/files/file/27209838748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingmontagna.com/userfiles/files/80776605101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laiksmodalux.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/vizapexadunaraxaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tljivv9v489k02gd5bacobjuq3/99734524747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baikalspring.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5124426872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrdiborice.cz/erucom1/files/files/90723841060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075de991bbd3---japabedobetakej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelstrack.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/86322691769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://llux.vn/uploads/files/gujizexalenotadabifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd4c7f9657d3f35a7a12c3339311f2ab/62245936425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jttahsd7mnqvnhbs381v3vefjt/19427774964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741f958ba2a---78851618592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2016.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mumanu.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_off0000c09d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC09D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8B4 10048 bytes
SHA-256: f80c055425cd6b3a8588bcfa9e0e5b50b21324296b868490e76516e15f49451c
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF10 17548 bytes
SHA-256: a204dd584a1469f80262565c49b5b127598490499e94489eb288ff00b51eb679

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