Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9aab3f2e2bc6c943…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:11:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0345784e8adfd287263ffe983bf76063 SHA-1: 93f26f6bf18a273be9f831d01de21396e151314c SHA-256: 9aab3f2e2bc6c9432889176ca0b95736549f7a1b9e9cec88fece009e6d0073b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd651510a89---nodufuwopegibujaroxenozi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d2ce8e67d8---61933971171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fbf6d253c5---duroxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160737c1a3cee3---87722144504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mauspro.net/upload/files/wurozuvexafiwowekumezep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6f887cf130---59451716095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sake2metustin.com/uploads/files/tebuzijezivijipivojasejib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tranhdaquydep.vn/upload/files/tokiwumagegepuzutimoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58b5e19dbc1de434027213025cd83db3/lulejubisuvigabot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://led7.ru/file/79473234033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derechosenred.org/aym_image/files/65043580850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urparitet.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mowatosatanudaliduxomada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davebakeragency.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8552b2db6c0f1a26acb8ce73bb42d9d/wofojizamupigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8ede10ffa9024a2f8f1da87cdc8eb8c/guwexumisuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnimeina.it/userfiles/files/xiwivurigurewarotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhfangyuan.com/uploadfiles/files/dadovemijukaxunajimop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f7e0f0c6fe---94409434256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/nojigamitinovunabisoligo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0188916001620830948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r73gak9pumsafnalmelsi2ebc4/popamozuxodisuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsdale66ersreunion.com/clients/c/c6/c679c52642bc64dd8629b98fb95ccc77/File/wowadawuselomifaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9p4b29dncp2cc6y.net/upload/fckeditor/file/45810665825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c562bf3ddd4---ludenodolezuvelemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160718f995125a---59051392311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=technical+english+for+civil+engineers+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://forum-auto.ru/data/files/43225846326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d40c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD40C 16876 bytes
SHA-256: 84f49208e1e541919a755afe7e8472707ef6751194d43c5e1b815968353669c8
font_01_sfnt_off0000fff5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFF5 10832 bytes
SHA-256: acea5d8c682253efb6aeee1f05b8b36af4608dbd9670e077c3410b4aaf3b232c
font_02_sfnt_off000118aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1