Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa012a174cbd3ef1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-11 19:08:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: fa31d9874d0aa65fc6fccea885bcbff0 SHA-1: 578e029e2226828978f08af64a374a7e5795dbae SHA-256: aa012a174cbd3ef1eedebe5aebb4285651973e428443288402d6fef3ab6c038b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the heuristic firings suggest this PDF is part of a link farm designed to redirect users. The primary attack pattern observed is the use of a malicious document as an attachment in a likely spearphishing campaign, leading to potential exploitation or further malicious content delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9914

Heuristics 5

  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=molecular+formula+ethyl+alcohol PDF link annotation
    • https://niboparis.com/upload/fckeditor/file/1631329552_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m3hotels.com/userfiles/file/girobugegavipiwekevejimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gplacestracker.com/userfiles/file/midofudagofiniwimonebeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ck-buhgalter.ru/userfiles/file/92913736705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://horizonpestservices.com/userfile/sebideremuzezosodiwepuwiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anakaygame.net/calisma2/files/uploads/girezabog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coming-c.com/userfiles/file/22461140233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1afklwjc5g.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lalabakedumafosogulim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatexpress.com/upload/userfiles/files/tipegejorepodudemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambiance-cinema.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2c07c315da845b99f9bcdf9af316bd4/29088209469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dmelt2rgq8d5ialjpdmhq92ju1/nozopinedifexerifig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jandenzobv.com/image_uploads/file/30219471057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatachau.vn/webroot/img/files/mobovarudiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geya99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nemuxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gr-chem.com/upload/files/pudadabidefoxibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/58168484302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamtimeshare.com/userfiles/file/9879251141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rogersdesignhouse.com/uploads/files/53434006968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deewanalarab.com/up_imgs/jefikureneduden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desco.scp.hr/files/mipev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marjojaspers.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xudamibilemuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liccuza.ro/stiri_files/file/55182636271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ville-dammarie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tixiwilisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atasuorganiktarim.com/upload/ckfinder/files/95107608549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a93b37dc28---69429213019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sapientgenerator.ru/files/userfiles/files/65287165269.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_off0000e6a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6A8 10444 bytes
SHA-256: 28717853a9622a5607fa17050707a106937b7f4b699126087275419e5cecb1a7
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE70 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011682.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11682 17552 bytes
SHA-256: e2b4c1efa05118c327b9e622ec2c251702dc0ac82ee75c35e502ffe824ab96b5