Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7aa0a66e0a0c55f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-08-09 03:43:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: c3d92758e05f0d95243aa9bd164c7411 SHA-1: d128faa79b355f5b874387b053bfdd5084e319f8 SHA-256: 7aa0a66e0a0c55f98598e1845dbba594e9ef6a60ef63a6dc8fccf2fe0455b53f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs further supports the attack pattern of luring users to external, potentially harmful, websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40ac53a96c04185e423c4b3bfc127d61/15474739400.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b16cf83388b---95499846069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mehreganimaging.ir/images/upload/files/52869489651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h7c5dp0p0iq0fnikdlvao4qdrd/xabugulapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodavidepini.it/userfiles/files/gugosapozibij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratco-hardware.com/Ups/files/773001368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whitebearlakeclassof1970.com/clients/0/05/05755deafc47004aae723e515cf08a6f/File/24662394929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holtfamilyreunion.com/clients/5/51/517903a0238f10651a3d170edcbd2d86/File/wixodarukabelotomova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607baf4339924---poxetexalubixesexobamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ppv92nh8bncrkaln4trluas459/15855117661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamor.org/userfiles/file/linaxuxazuxivedujuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomanzetti.it/userfiles/files/taposojuzamalunixaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ppmcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oajtt47f4i7ns539644q1slhee/53286453182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ff02fee00bee222e2761a411081f57f/sidowifakiximekowin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alhurwallpaper.com/Files/files/61557693819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/403d49bd2734c4b6c7ea043d031cb5c2/24355207915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eebd2eaf36---sexowif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strechybenesov.cz/content/zadefin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobiliareborghi.com/userfiles/files/zoxuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tutek.eu/userfiles/file/jotifukogifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/30600774762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/jufogajelorutaguwupavixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9p4b29dncp2cc6y.net/upload/fckeditor/file/23027299544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b309d4d6858---girojos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=engineering+mechanics+statics+13th+edition+solutions+manual+pdfPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c81c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC81C 16128 bytes
SHA-256: 70446b23c7293527b0a068233361164cf11ef608487a6032085ae649ea0467f3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1D1 11376 bytes
SHA-256: 040af5d4d0b10bda5de6d07c842983c9318746db3716e2452189ee3e0daff15e
font_02_sfnt_off00010c47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C47 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1