Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa097c68e33a8337…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-09-22 16:41:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 8feefe2c3f7e7925f98dbdd19470c1c4 SHA-1: 7f253c55f06869c64affdaed1957ae6b34ed7244 SHA-256: aa097c68e33a833748869c5e626176fb35bf6823e3d98929ecece4fc5dd0e4f2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fluid+mechanics+landau+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://saigonford3s.com/uploads/2021-09-02/images/files/21277990098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vargyasnekonyveles.hu/kepek/other/file/pirazetebesemixetofibasim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marlin-aquarium.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84237774370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braintreeclinics.com/app/webroot/img/files/70404202975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogathoitrang.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/mowavakemekofani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coil.hk/upload/files/nizejekakezoruxafunufav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptekarynek.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/jinopadegujagadiwewemanil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westfallassociates.com/documents/file/jimixukanati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svarovanijelinek.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98480625287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemochem.cn/upload/files/51197863993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snft.ro/media/file/1142886499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc15795c4cecbe62f84b646b7ccd0d4f/4333118068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baptistfriends.org/media/tigalerizepodozapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136b9c1b8218---54258826222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mai-avto.ru/upload_files/file/90917006228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/kezivusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30c5a4a9b3f4b72352c0dc4731dac34b/7291892745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lactopad.com/uploads/files/zebotebadodulivunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zovsh.com/Uploadfiles/files/vilokuvatijaxajilapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amt-alarmy.pl/userfiles/file/91599462164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uitetenindex.nl/images/uploads/46301708373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perechen-jurnalov.ru/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/joboda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614022c2d65eb---vigiberubagidepawivisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhousemethod.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11924849858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kunbot.com/upload/files/wunawile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poslovniimenik.net/firme_data/files/97438598782.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_off0000c66a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC66A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000de7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE7C 17648 bytes
SHA-256: a92b997caa6488eb1d4a37ed76b1dfad00a3d7cae0cf0ae216fadae6e1c64b26
font_02_sfnt_off00010c25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C25 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 1759bb95f80564ae16d69602085d49c7181cdd815629091881fdd2485ffa59bc