Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa058199b3074bb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-06-25 21:18:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 55b147a96c928a974cb82f0cd062a0d2 SHA-1: cd5b65120407d6c1aceda3818142134670a91152 SHA-256: aa058199b3074bb425dea79ee4e2f00e94826b305180b4ee7afff56991bee4f5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings suggest it may leverage embedded JavaScript for malicious actions, such as redirecting users to these external sites.

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 http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b89b2a550b3---36512555811.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd73a390da---46831779972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedule-plachty.cz/files/file/fanuxonowazexozovid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/31591730605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ff8af8eded8528be579a3053f7b3450/ranupafena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetamblj.si/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20456102571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dereformasenalicante.com/archivos/files/26872500008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c52ded9e3c910dcf0ac684b12d16a3ba/72724833586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909ddfe3b2e---sozuxupokiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/co6aq0em89oqlo793mbtgt6s1o/bosotipugugezoresozuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ujrkv2lfvteggnqcn0g974m0rg/99105598006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1130f1c723---wawuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e817de5290---19546621837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tc1paud6fg5r4au11vntg0pop2/xaxukoduxuwodatesufop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701829ee686---fewetifepipun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bue7e28q67rukefj211k3sn5t2/63481006587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74cf81da2f4d5724c264dd0c31f67b28/63923041575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd158df0f08b487538ac6799401a2501/55460288423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15037985a8bf1b9375dadaf338023fb1/gixenelutix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a144e1bf7f0---51232246570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://honda-otolongan.com/upload/files/xupejalawopekibomixuwiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resheto.ru/users_images//fck/file/66139295539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdjsp5lo3k7mi8bot94jrcd4t2/vumijizovofevam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=causes+of+crime+in+south+africa+pdfPDF 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_off0000f6cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6CC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010ee3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EE3 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 7f9aa89ae76a2bd4e1823cb7ffb07076e0832c8c2ca37d4edef7d8ce52968767
font_02_sfnt_off00012827.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12827 17212 bytes
SHA-256: 786170d4d0c271ebe810c4a8b5e0509c2e0e0847c494bc249bf278d350dd117e

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