Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a01aabcc5d8a0ca4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 19:27:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4f0ce1a52b06f811f6c2b6a9f25e2b16 SHA-1: 66df5b4d00dc9e9e0a31da6c149dc52a92becbbb SHA-256: a01aabcc5d8a0ca40541abfdf7b18aea8fcd81bc594e0d46f3af9ffb521a7914
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The primary purpose seems to be redirecting users to potentially malicious content, aligning with phishing or malware distribution tactics. The ClamAV detection further supports its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qdad91sqnfe8k7802oiubhijm4/sudaluburipabigik.pdf
    • http://araonline.hu/uploads/file/mevotozitaxisinuve.pdf
    • http://zaragozalawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/10949743825.pdf
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e1315a8f9b22586d1a0db7559229ad2/40179945698.pdf
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3pnd24ldb4gjoob4rkar7r0712/16768772924.pdf
    • http://kozszemle.hu/uploads/files/37047751775.pdf
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/ginisarojorek.pdf
    • https://laps.pl/userfiles/file/gosowatalisotozipite.pdf
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160917b6a5da8b---87748027908.pdf
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7496c829cc9e6f768d3f0ddb479b63e/girarenoxenuwun.pdf
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r9u3vjssve5eke9d3pp6cvir25/zefila.pdf
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59619e9296908dd053592fb959da4654/34028323731.pdf
    • http://imi.vc/upload/files/39715688631.pdf
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b73325cb8641594094417a1fcd3ef60/69536936893.pdf
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cad8549a77---paxadigimuvowedu.pdf
    • http://ouhkpthaa.org/userfiles/vexob.pdf
    • https://thinkhigh-tech.com/d/files/zulisevarezarazuw.pdf
    • https://bleikss.com/userfiles/file/dafutuw.pdf
    • http://xtra360.net/campannas/file/refowix.pdf
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa98ad519f08b20149c3786837f6559c/vitokoxenojiwigax.pdf
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0c84b1fde6---65271100617.pdf
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/921eb5edb03ae5fdae4b0599331ed822/rideter.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=curl+pagination+example
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a56c8fe0665---81623199632.pdf
    • 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_off0000f097.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF097 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000108a9.bin
d81de21b7615fb6681ec29b1f6e0b0d4f26e2176e3d66b5347b7fe17d47bd0fa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108A9 17888 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000137ca.bin
dae37f6415e34e9adf71a3fa1d9a4eabe9f79ea66443cfa50878cb10a20755d7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137CA 10660 bytes