Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9aa25e7ccef12a3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-09-18 12:32:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0da7ee865ae73b87c8e52f320aaa3d27 SHA-1: 19b44712765529d68a7d732883b468bebda993eb SHA-256: 9aa25e7ccef12a3fd1361bc5b196719a84e322167bf61370b31c6d6485dcfa97
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure points to an attempt to exploit user trust via compromised web infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://simorgh.it/uploads/file/65667511324.pdf
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614242bf3a0c0---98557677500.pdf
    • http://buyyoutubecomments.com/ci/userfiles/files/4451654316.pdf
    • http://dxczx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210908_110427.pdf
    • http://e-menu.hu/editor_up/kajezajadapav.pdf
    • https://psg66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuvev.pdf
    • http://uptownfallschurch.com/uploads/files/20531725412.pdf
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e5de7489716ff86425c73bbd6e9b581/nivumarunitugifaxad.pdf
    • http://proreferee.ru/uploads/ckfinder/files/doloxepotewenavu.pdf
    • https://paardenwelzijnscheck.nl/app/webroot/files/ckeditor_files/files/78947940696.pdf
    • http://abwcockeysville.com/uploads/files/99917551091.pdf
    • http://natalieshuff.com/uploads/file/manog.pdf
    • http://rejs2013.cycling-recycling.eu/imgturysta/files/47034107836.pdf
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/bevagorexenedelibowu.pdf
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/979c30fc0a788b9dd0d3eceddf9e3394/tutoga.pdf
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pkiqgejubue26gobcq5v001tkp/36297477438.pdf
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.ca/upload/editor/file/22139396541.pdf
    • http://slr-eyewear.com/slr/userfiles/20210903050721.pdf
    • http://newtrichur.com/userfiles/file/33984707567.pdf
    • http://longruiglass.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210913_081635.pdf
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/98863621867.pdf
    • http://casinodanmarkjackpot.dk/userfiles/file/52006636374.pdf
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d45209f8d6583ed169c80db338eabb0a/wuwoxina.pdf
    • http://miwon.com.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/wubet.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=muscular+system+anterior
    • 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_off0000eced.bin
99dfd18a99375a1d12a2ea50a0209e0c5f120ad4018b5529bba8dc5dc9a214cc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECED 10600 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010532.bin
9990d80ada10d6d7e715c8fd15b9407695c1d4a195514a6f9fb8f674586e97ec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10532 17144 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013192.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13192 16792 bytes