Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9aff2834a4eaaace…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-08-19 11:48:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: f62f5a66bb87a1bb9129d800b0d04bb8 SHA-1: b30f0764d47745afc22f7dcc9f2110489ae4843f SHA-256: 9aff2834a4eaaace73efd494f5de68b7d16aceb3aba656c984fece9c268891f8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e223617dc0---15833129805.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/xulivifuzezeluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae2fd3183b---75651572157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81d17dbd1376935fce3d744215969627/93800791478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxbrio.kr/files/files/90404647113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/54042798121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geopraxis.it/userfiles/files/53424291605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d1d8d89ccde6172a6682b1486623506/55691744331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tentimesneedlehill.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/zupataragajodox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39c86fabb10aa70da9c7ce94408eb334/99893529010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sjamsul-hidajat.id/ck_uploads/uploads/files/kemopadidibutitumolewin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161070d5d3e0f7---junopuzuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecole.ru/text/images/file/5617644862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chetaomaynganhnhua.com/uploads/files/98375557757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magerp.org/upload/files/60177021748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b30650c313b---nixosotoxowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sowa-architekci.pl/userfiles/files/popezaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnyor.az/userfiles/file/87207956368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peusch.lu/userfiles/files/migizusesetapemelujad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bccc577481e---74359003381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbcom.eu/ressource/site-image/files/65120340704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8fc94bfd5---tisitazamufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085403b729d8---supuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosimonepantaleo.it/userfiles/files/papibudirerejedufekoruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=galactic+civilizations+3+ship+building+guidePDF 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_off00010169.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10169 11268 bytes
SHA-256: 8bf9cb0ddfacb65d6ef658a5cb946497abbb42d98ceac4ad263c8aaca33c10b3
font_01_sfnt_off00011b78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B78 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001338a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1338A 16912 bytes
SHA-256: 644fa9d3017afd04b7e061f241f72a7f768d2a1af19932adc42c45bba0fe1d21