Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa0bba85930d8337…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 17:25:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7eb5700cc3bc66ce7043013da71c5953 SHA-1: 7a889666c2d457a48ef57a394724aa29f8fcbf0e SHA-256: aa0bba85930d8337c68e6f21cf93b344de3202ef3a34023e776b6fc212a47ef7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links on compromised sites strongly suggests a malicious redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://timesofbangla.com/uploads/files/mipaje.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d0ae3fdbe0d87502ec32a897ef94331/19688378558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bae4bccfc69---vinoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d01342403cf---lopovozitufufuvikivenexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estudiowebcolombia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77508331402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ftldalhql5l7pv70p0e1d5che7/96557757330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bookatowncar.com/userfiles/file/jumafirewilovajisagazot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerhouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a401652fbf2b63265f5e892f8252317c/48522254256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-polyana.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91688489278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rougeindigo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13955995334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irina-beha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98822073773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/27749184631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28dbdde517b5b7371e9f8490cec56e13/64929961659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074709551911---92522890691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portamarioarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/12244235525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cailux.lu/userfiles/files/72584638041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607940ed16a7c---liropaposadevatix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/sijig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bora.su/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95221816699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocb-ap.org/file_media/file_image/file/2456788324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b92c31ea8bd---42993908374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antae.be/app/webroot/uploads/file/5087944365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815b97d72cd---24685970522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=emotional+eating+disorder+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_off0000d797.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD797 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 80a15c2064b5abc17a31edd573c18e706f3187c7a8af26c400a0baa47c787bc5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f042.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF042 16868 bytes
SHA-256: 2a2e15c4ff248c42a4146f7739eea3dd467f5beec43c51f43e0cc47e7a36ca07
font_02_sfnt_off00011bae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BAE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1