Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa0f7b7302ce0418…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 11:24:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 98d4153004ef8bad000d1c71600009ff SHA-1: ad52f05460b7c130dd0bbb35c846ace3d233d47f SHA-256: aa0f7b7302ce0418e6494a197fbbde629ef0316f655be9423c10bba277c7aea9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised websites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the idea that the PDF is designed to trick users into downloading malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=history+books+for+ias+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://sedaciesupravy.sk/media/file/83572703315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fultoys.com/userfiles/nimutixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd9142211d2f232d4d7ccbf5277c3668/93854480251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigyikesmedia.com/home/xtremweb/public_html/consultinstitute/web/upload/files/73741212810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8hp6596jkq62289f1viot15qs/ludawizarugetesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e52639a90---lokom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3de51b7a244f85c1c130a94c50c4cb0/89737919373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2064b648af---93097723785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612aba9d3fab8---66470673837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092884eaa018---tejexopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/900be8ea7dea0ecb43ac606d223e82d6/80967161123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iskoruma.com/upload/ckfinder/files/fijizotiroviwibuzej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakesnwoodskerala.com/uploads/file/65423256003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/40466161138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drsaman.com/files/31269379174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brawlcall.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bekivoxinak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ituk5nr49t5d2i0pv8dj5g470q/54704689565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210515195628_420133398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltarents.com/upload/ckfinder/files/89200393541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/42849575783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f401fa3e523---lopenekikofimol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carroll1975.com/clients/4/4e/4e2b018d07aaa5a30c3e4fca1c7a8df7/File/sakapupupimonerapinelugim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://curryleafharleysvillepa.com/hang/userfiles/files/neboko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mostex.sk/files/articles/file/mugumatotoxakisitadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myjobcareer.net/userfiles/file/2021052216330273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyteepee.com/uploadfiles/file/210811235410153991jfu7pk.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_off0000dadb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDADB 19052 bytes
SHA-256: 4fd16eb032b6f06cd6d97fc4eb57cdf4f24aea66a075038982a57b51a418716b
font_01_sfnt_off00010c34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001244b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1244B 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 4259272631bcd4f026c13670c9dee1f51d36ef497516a609762971a85419d7a6