Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7aa72a0fd1124572…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-18 01:46:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 96d732a6dc223cd018eb0b0cff4c33c2 SHA-1: d9da1f1c77001fc62adccdc926ee339157b694ba SHA-256: 7aa72a0fd1124572e614de25c133fbe6eb1b0e4a0b8666e455ba036855e01b36
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or phishing sites. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings clearly point to a link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://yuanfuconstruction.com/ckfinder/upload/files/wutakaxum.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://3rproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tazafiguwoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioesflores.pl/obrazy/file/vovewepowavifeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bussmann-tiefbau.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jibaforigasigowaseve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ekoforte.com/upload/file/linapunipupepabis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cca91b4b73a7c3fcbce0dd13add2b550/37907034667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investir-petroleo.pt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zamofogelarukeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwrva.com/uploads/files/kavojetelubuxomufumani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwgulfport.com/uploads/files/31493270546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aokman-drive.com/d/files/fenin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winecellarkeeper.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/finijujujubev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpk.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93656132967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137469e24b78---xerupepiramezow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magicdiscoradio.com/userfiles/file/80310728520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chpcentre.com/files/file/gorigugekusabanodoruxubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxmeterthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25805288192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://er-trans.com/img/produkty/files/libisivatarew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161411b76e7b46---kebitiwoxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mamafoundation.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/siluxapupibosapevumigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://influences-vegetales.eu/assets/Image/files/kibibarefokilirakarowazug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aaaxxion.info/images/file/32247212519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t86650v8paib42796cle3taumu/61405641691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopgraeagle.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/93439296962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huseyindurmuslar.com/images_upload/files/xilizirojubojapovala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candemdientu.com/Images_upload/files/tojawopuvepuwakasivunewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hmgfinance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44979459635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=sharing+gps+androidPDF 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_off0000d5d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5D3 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 532b14b9e983f67cf663dae0472c536299ffc9d659f5b387da64e02136713b81
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED3B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001054d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1054D 17172 bytes
SHA-256: 9960e2e3f57666bba02a495eab90805e5fda3953954163aa920728504789f432