Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa14a6cba445d338…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-07-23 18:29:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d01b25a42f5cbd626df0c64572e8f8e7 SHA-1: eac7303ba125daea72f5ac79aff38abcfb3c4afa SHA-256: aa14a6cba445d3386c837fcd584c27ea5dd018d71ae81bb6ea487879256c0572
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious content or exploit kits.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://tucholainfo.pl/userfiles/file/pewogaxulu.pdf
    • https://hospvetcentral.pt/site/upload/file/32428513699.pdf
    • http://www.texaco.bargiel.com.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60279279531.pdf
    • http://ampletrekking.com/userfiles/file/vobarisovimagiliposi.pdf
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/967f4638d683eeeb472de91cea3306b0/40007082673.pdf
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6565ce021---78365524925.pdf
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e368f3f6e6392fe1aff2a6e95bb06d50/81157642301.pdf
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aca5790bcab---bikuvaropanu.pdf
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i5h6bemt7v0lo9qt761c9qv1jl/saduvu.pdf
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/webaboboxenevokid.pdf
    • https://alzubidi.com/userfiles/files/nodokaxodilape.pdf
    • https://gyandeepjkss.org/userfiles/file/19872491760.pdf
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cb2478d2d7bce5e4ae974a3ae4baed7/zejol.pdf
    • http://ihvanturizm.com/rsm/files/6043627516.pdf
    • https://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/gorobir.pdf
    • http://goldenbaycruisesagent.com/userfiles/file/kijoxudax.pdf
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d4f77572a3---vomujodubala.pdf
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/96294691518.pdf
    • http://ekbdrive.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rijerupudoponujofu.pdf
    • http://dogable.de/userfiles/file/32327973631.pdf
    • http://debandhelder.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rawaxegikanezufojavef.pdf
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bc56e34041ec711411b9bbfb0cce560/neride.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=colores+primarios+secundarios+y+terciarios
    • 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_off0000e853.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE853 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010065.bin
4c8bc67c606365d667ac33404e18e97bac3ee22af8bc2d1de9bb8880b0a1e735
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10065 18512 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013044.bin
abfe82808e68cdf0b7fc13883e2a187c1cb0e33179bffa5e57357be0f7081032
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13044 10920 bytes