Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8aa01dfa7fd4a672…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-09-26 02:50:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7a0b39b4c5eda12025a55ba9a9ce0941 SHA-1: f051967d4d67813ec6261a21c34abb28322ef340 SHA-256: 8aa01dfa7fd4a6728407fcf9631235d0e17760ad97b5466cf4f383aab4380bb8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be auto-generated content rather than user-readable text.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+wifi+password+using+android
    • https://rais.bg/uploads/file/pavemomoda.pdf
    • http://hpcad.pl/Upload/file/jimopagiziwuvuwuwe.pdf
    • http://jlicentral.com/images/authors/file/begumasapawurozujobopiva.pdf
    • http://xn--ob0bjxt9h99icicrvkksa421cwwp7hiv4d6a.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/refow.pdf
    • http://hepiran.com/cache/fck_files/file/vonutojofi.pdf
    • https://aramlasmerok.hu/uploads/file/giruw.pdf
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/28014303294.pdf
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132bb14adb7e---61719801687.pdf
    • http://xn----itbbfrdrdbd4bgy6gi.xn--p1ai/webroot/files/files/50349319941.pdf
    • http://hemeringen.de/ckeditor_ablage/userfiles/files/bulizarutafukefalikavo.pdf
    • https://heritran.vn/uploads/news_file/raberabamamuziwopapop.pdf
    • http://domingo.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20119136617.pdf
    • http://nissanotogovap.com/uploads/images/files/lofafupitudijirupes.pdf
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c754253016081ccfc31f9b71092b5ed/3431888922.pdf
    • http://vigen12.com/userfiles/file/tolik.pdf
    • http://vitali-schulz-eiskunstlaufen.de/userfiles/files/80534032963.pdf
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136ea9632667---3214608144.pdf
    • https://cafesca.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44273255484.pdf
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/rumemijifebupiga.pdf
    • https://prosaison.fr/userfiles/files/18915801188.pdf
    • https://rajaketiga.com/contents/files/57445467184.pdf
    • http://quartierdete.fr/uploads/fckeditor/file/dujawizutu.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/wubagumufidisuvodibezez.pdf
    • http://abwlargo.com/uploads/files/21320849075.pdf
    • http://aquarium-kochi.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79496455410.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b513.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB513 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd2a.bin
653ea556095f472081d324f2501bbe30fbab924a2783c5006bdb250fbb93078b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD2A 10672 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e585.bin
1ffbda5b2c3c8b55e805031b51490eed01dcb2e0bb56c5d181f6da39ae41b8b9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE585 16296 bytes