Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7aafe5585ff68cd4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:32:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ebfbe0feafd85280b798415c060d3d0a SHA-1: 55e8ff696603639f43ec84b8dd1105de8896d259 SHA-256: 7aafe5585ff68cd446225d6104d4f703fdb9e125db005a3e8c48fe3180f089e7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites, likely for phishing or SEO poisoning.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f1b12ae2b---xirimubediwarifofesuvidi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bititechnika.com/uploads/file/nekemurunuzugasepibabakuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arichaindia.com/userfiles/file/kepusevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatrangpalace.vn/app/webroot/upload/files/59136526329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a08ee24a54f---29702982255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e08b80245fc45fdfa7c489b52792d279/jurejabofudixugenikuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7160e4494681b51f6d64d4a8cbf41f2a/dizuzeteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m54606l7h1mmdnt61dplk5kpt1/putixaredibelatovolaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/tumonelowebolifen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72bd22b89b934dcb65bb54301719065b/sazanumopefimugigupafifob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tqf7nrjoovnlossqs6c1d1fb2q/sanowasakesaworukevaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strategie-online.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/41436590697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptownchantilly.com/uploads/files/15678161377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100dd6414edd---97384711371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://essaidafm.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/nawozedotaviwer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmms-online.com/assets/file/92431732609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4b6a7e218b---risabufitudavunoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f5ce7b77f---58935673971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://surupaceanu.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pabijavefuwesoziwamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f67e51c874---65380524246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085722421a10---dubudewumuruwuvike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyvenus.it/userfiles/files/22481464515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/sejugogofesemobawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bc1b197ee7074994b8cc1933ed41388/63140276353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://computerzone.pk/file/1004216087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=ndebele+orthography+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_off0000db03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB03 16628 bytes
SHA-256: e43dc9e9d8ec2e2334138c331ea7cc5af4f3ba581244e6e9f6f17ee3b857e426
font_01_sfnt_off00010587.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10587 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D9E 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 748949f83179c7a0086bffd645b72101061ab00aa00b5286e6dfaacf80edc3ea