Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa132bf88f9d644c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 04:50:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 1129e4821134cdd1d54e5c18c5e7ade4 SHA-1: a098330397862cd77cd266d1e4066142c3ee5094 SHA-256: aa132bf88f9d644c7310da2df8cb0fd0db77b2e6be6c03e2a12d2e1abea2fe2f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates a phishing or redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ae0a18005e---boxugud.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eubeer.vn/uploads/files/65085494042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rana-international.com/userfiles/files/17975956875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turatabor.hu/media/62014174454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.museopizarra.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19474647511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088331f7541d---vimarevapok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p0epc9lf78fhj0th9t6l7lm87t/bufurureveredenusowavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metalzilembo.it/userfiles/files/merezomagaxulaxukebasam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumputhijau.com/contents//files/lasexixuvuvatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfe02f2c4a40de3ac5c08138381d0a11/36156157241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.blog/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/16114244619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://starbox.fr/img/files/fetosekebavasefazabupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgicorp.com/userfiles/files/54502865197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alugutader.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70003128869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cc0272b87d62696bcbaabb54da09f60/juremerunomeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traonguoc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g93pjlhlhdrtqfq922pt8vqgd7/paxawejupivesotamawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog//file/48859766962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d667dbe2ec8---genobafojujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bae62041eaa2dc16a357a485c299eee/78682293408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809b6d5484a---famazumelujuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/mozumutizudipetarov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7c9a3187f0---80869609028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d5faa2e70e---levunedes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://h-n-s.net/userfiles/file/tabekuvelawiwuvasup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=square+root+of+negative+4PDF 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_off0000e5ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5CA 10640 bytes
SHA-256: afacbc8dd7a45e0cb7bb6d3b24cdd08b0c18b1019c8075856be47462d3ca82a3
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE13 17996 bytes
SHA-256: f48c8bbd5b40bffb2f7da2d31d865f8cda6604daee73be11b01923162a78c728
font_02_sfnt_off00012c6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C6B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1