Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7aa44d66032b670a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 18:03:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 48926f3b7f8874f7380488969d0cb016 SHA-1: 8f801e983c6c9047d012595cfd95d51a27c270bd SHA-256: 7aa44d66032b670a188b1d1d197ebbeba375948091eb7d6aeacbfd19a0072e55
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it is a link farm and a browser installation lure. The document's content, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a social engineering attempt to trick the user into downloading and installing a browser extension or update. The presence of numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, further supports the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136d8f24591f---tafiwobesajav.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nenayu.com/filespath/files/20210902015306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szaniterplaza.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11408242911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zohopin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/folenoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioriboldi.eu/userfiles/files/likevuxumikawobenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/jiginifub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hig-hegmann.de/userfiles/file/zixukumudazirulufulifisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161330f57edbdd---64415943732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuongiare.vn/upload/files/21641777139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qataminational.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/bilopetejekejotupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kernenshepler.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ninugopofexaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tayles.com/uploaded/tisufovewofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schturman.ru/files/files/28989568422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://screen.by/images/file/kavowubat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzzwchem.com/upload/files/31536114975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ultraljud.nu/bild/files/devirogag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613473392d92b---kujuzajivatomuvejirimaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agedwedfjtj.pretty-match.com/upload/files/zugaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agmatbaa.com/upload/files/sitonumisimobufajeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rinsacars.com/files/others/17875176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfwofficial.com/ck_imgs/files/dafimonolinesokajoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136851bf2de2---bemasamowel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspaeng.com/files/image/files/gofukorudelizetekinepit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gedayapi.com/userfiles/file/tufodenuwojebuxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique-u.biz/images/uploads/file/xokuwefivolevixasul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=direct+object+and+object+of+preposition+worksheetPDF 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_off0000e5d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDEB 11120 bytes
SHA-256: fa8598fc8d3487fbdb7b5860f37f546469f4e3304f39d10bd2db90fd79032a37
font_02_sfnt_off000117a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117A9 16996 bytes
SHA-256: 3ff3b5632a2cde491ebcd2797443a59e5e623d5944346e673530766a7359c37a