Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa04e8349f8b8418…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-06-13 08:24:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5d09459a6504f3c74ae150cb704fdb47 SHA-1: 8391bdabe0961e4cd343579d954c0a6de20954cf SHA-256: aa04e8349f8b8418826168925e4d4b766c8afefdc7a975a0244a1cdde540cfbc
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and the presence of multiple 'formcraft' and 'super-forms' plugin paths in the URLs suggest an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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=top+100+maple+story+private+server PDF link annotation
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f36292ca3---vugukezud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f72295395292fa636049bd1ad573fbf2/dubefigol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glbtrader.com/userfiles/file/96744862887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capital-tic.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210527071645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/502ed88bac61657018da52a8a5e40354/nesazisumakubadatobanafip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081146ee61f0---zufovibopug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://247hvac.ca/fabulous1/uploads/files/leverudug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35be5d66fc2e3ff1c3dd0761317e5671/dabibijopolovapewovimogud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b12f1eb81ea0602210ffdaf8a560d963/62246841803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7c8e04b550---99888974366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aydin-elektrik.com/resimler/files/18049922248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalsolar.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160959ef3098df---volokajid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210504101356166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barrierball.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85805354289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fb26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB26 5272 bytes
SHA-256: 7135d29058307528655286f9c178e5a797f632b6af7c929fa78fad64df17d614
font_01_sfnt_off00010d0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D0A 21752 bytes
SHA-256: fb249b2626db994302078c0c38c484bf3ff0dd700e7ed47b3badd7f338059479