Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9aa46352803fa919…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 17:05:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1cedcd8b6b2e6f7fe06c30d922fd2d9a SHA-1: 0f3df9de8fd93c2a16a5dad7cecc613b8dbd1c97 SHA-256: 9aa46352803fa9191c8ce55969035d8155dff85fbb8dc06b14ad738b306d5ec9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF that contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using disposable hosting for these links, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phishing lures. The presence of a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports the malicious nature of this document, likely serving as a lure for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c60679041---korupef.pdf
    • https://used-machinetools.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/jaxatiwugolasidijax.pdf
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/kigukiped.pdf
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p4a4550cjc9rac672ihcvv5tbv/xutexaxulurubu.pdf
    • http://qtjdb.com/UploadFile/2021/05/18/file/20210518_113049_172.pdf
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724ae066a63---kebibobope.pdf
    • http://konditsionery-zheleznodorozhnyi.ru/upload_picture/file/26018748406.pdf
    • http://matsusushionline.com/uploads/files/58732244961.pdf
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jp2sj3ie12n7626oh758e9bgbn/dafidiwanojofekitiri.pdf
    • https://art-eria.pl/mandarynka/pliki/files/81901883967.pdf
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ffc11ab1f8---51750436829.pdf
    • http://espressoperfetto.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/nujawizobowezibupok.pdf
    • http://clarksville.net/wysiwygfiles/file/74297613438.pdf
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e40be2edec84343ad454a86e0a04d8bb/5387662289.pdf
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/61533582279.pdf
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8cc687f5cdbecad62544018f2caab82/baleforego.pdf
    • http://gryfarmerskie.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/xotugisapopogo.pdf
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804b8f8130c---51568260618.pdf
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/69475065132.pdf
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/86639238950.pdf
    • https://anup.bo/images/files/dekijasuvafolatekur.pdf
    • http://yilip.net/userData/board/file/nukasepiwusi.pdf
    • http://sakaryakasaplarodasi.org/userfiles/file/danide.pdf
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/66102606010.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+to+excel+converter+crack+software+free+download
    • 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_off0000d6f2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6F2 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef04.bin
17ede7e025ef5f69008ec1afef4d78e1665f164971a69018642f267a7afd4ade
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF04 16908 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011aa2.bin
2800e32b2925d96325a8222dea92c62be67ce173aa558ef8fc12f6a6f48ac2d3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AA2 10724 bytes