Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8aa58d63003a1038…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.7 KB Created: 2021-08-23 17:42:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c06dd04a3d0c2330c2ca7cd62953c357 SHA-1: dcf5d1315e1d3386d59d4ac4619579dd1b9f468c SHA-256: 8aa58d63003a1038a73124cfe6b3d134456a932c786f9c833267fe73221729e5
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations and disposable hosting sites. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' suggests the document may be intended to trick users into downloading and decrypting a password-protected archive, which likely contains a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://www.peretprod.ro/content-images/file/49117258803.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dbf7174e46---mexevawinubexagox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5e4b9a681211898be0893e1ee8291d0/64960819414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d25f77d0b87---35281323777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6afu9h8lcbhbmujq13l3m57or7/safavotadipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b536ce9a2---zexifuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ropesadventure.com/d/files/jujewevabejolenaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85f1b2768497ac9a91b57256ce650422/fogedoxeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/goxewaxasovukasiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fertilizerproductionprocess.com/d/files/84607333248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5rnri71vli8ssgsjvdpimrud7/55276267766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc75.net/upfiles/file/1625131005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/zofenifofumeburaribeliwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photopuzzle.net/userData/board/file/7735833072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://preciseenergygroup.com/media/4741296541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelofthewinds.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kapuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doverhighschoolhalloffame.com/clients/2/2d/2d76883e1086210ef8e2c43836b0327f/File/90408369520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proektasis.gr/admin/spaw2/uploads/files/lafetup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfmaccounting.com/webroot/img/content/files/livofapinipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/763b79fa1557b9a54e2ea39c05bb7a54/kerudelotefomilakobibazem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truemark.dev/DevelopersIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=java+interview+questions+and+answers+for+8+years+experiencePDF 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_off000107f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001200b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1200B 11380 bytes
SHA-256: e28d5c9e0a8e2477a64762242b8e17ee26748e572ce7d11d2019fb88e74a3d1e
font_02_sfnt_off00013af0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AF0 18568 bytes
SHA-256: 1842f8905578232c599f3ad92e76430b2bae255eb8906457b5c61ebd96ff57a3