Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa0693ae51d3f603…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-08-21 14:32:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 33eecba04ca6848e637d951a82c3fba3 SHA-1: de1a5e3374d9c849a0424f55b1e7ca0371b63170 SHA-256: aa0693ae51d3f603d3842863b147d276dc013dc6f466a95eaabe12da9723712d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS upload storage suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The file likely exploits a PDF vulnerability to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+calculate+how+many+molecules+are+in+grams
    • http://identik.hu/editor_up/kemisomevavinameruri.pdf
    • http://euro-ex.net/images/blog//file/xirewugewalifuwib.pdf
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28e3e61a4b45a120140cce97b92a737b/tatinuxeruresubajovuvaxi.pdf
    • http://mrs-edu.com/sribati/editor/uploadfiles/mixeb.pdf
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc8a88ad274d382d89913388cba32437/bozamifetesoxokujadim.pdf
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49dec3ea06175b3a0837c5aa6278baf7/wumetopiligopofosobifobok.pdf
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab78b00b40a---kafijaweduselegamoni.pdf
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcb4f5df72c---xezeraji.pdf
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v20i3bkbvaucl9cjdj787sovs5/49713451048.pdf
    • https://argentinaproduct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30533423180.pdf
    • http://bamila.vn/luutru/files/49383473524.pdf
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ada7fc6845---topojotutazogige.pdf
    • http://www.cerathai.com/image/upload/File/95260809636.pdf
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c28d7536ef---kurinutesulorenax.pdf
    • https://memoservicesrl.it/file/46736606764.pdf
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf307ac5fe2---23556939138.pdf
    • http://garantc.ru/userfiles/file/rewobebazisetujija.pdf
    • http://yuhenganquan.com/userfiles/file/20210818165925_1619585075.pdf
    • https://lecachet.fr/docs/files/67884310762.pdf
    • https://bayihoki99.com/contents//files/nuzulubi.pdf
    • http://alessandrobelleseveterinario.eu/userfiles/files/82711710351.pdf
    • http://es-manzokudou.com/yamituki-n/uploads/files/45223715042.pdf
    • https://ksi-system.pl/editorfiles/file/dagowonojasixaluj.pdf
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/14856920478.pdf
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a0c9a9284b---3288255041.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_off0000d955.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD955 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f16c.bin
bcb03b7cadad2fceea5f49e837e12e1ff07e2466b3ca43ae90891cf9606a4dea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF16C 10968 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010aba.bin
610cbc4905c3133372a8a187c594953354094fda59516ab82693c898375cb5a2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ABA 17908 bytes