Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa15604c9de19915…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-07-05 05:15:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 0b32f71f877cb5af39897fa91ba4bcff SHA-1: 64bee7fc8cfdf9c9968e163ef050aea95d24f5ad SHA-256: aa15604c9de19915b6831aa88687c1f6b663a574fef6850e8521dcf374c0336f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Static analysis revealed numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other potentially disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5a6565cb9d---3733723006.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dffdabeed8---riborulike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9d0bfab077---wufomosujadog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89033606878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e7d42141b6---sotowiwalosekuwowavudon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983922db56c---sopopilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6412ac8295c00cac7b0529ffade23d95/biwelesoboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/xodemuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076792f2dbb2---mefuxebuzas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gagiongvitgiong.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kejosebomikatuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eviljoy.com/UserFiles/File/depikedabagozezamomokepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmtours.co/aym_image/files/87020898394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bt15keo1cmk8041ianja48mkr7/10096331476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richfield1962.com/clients/4/47/47516dc9824f3897220912ef171c404f/File/runuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a468277979b---97258848457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domainecomps.com/documents/files/wefosof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prtl.pl/userfiles/file/fofameruvomedogus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofelician.com/userfiles/files/gukivikexajen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7563c29449ae23ec92581029106e707e/68816029815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moderator.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/nibemes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q7fcttjuuulml90c9id8hso4ca/38491710435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wisewood50th.com/clients/3/35/35ca2b70ae131fa39667c240906a3fe4/File/masudoridareb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bo7m29ju8p9igap6nhqqb9o5m4/5386495792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flygarfield.net/userfiles/file/53260734266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acbb3176910b7b691c34c63ec7039edc/69255783848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=intersection+between+two+arraysPDF 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_off0000c7d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFEB 16012 bytes
SHA-256: 3397ded9bd217319c07a50cad6d11dc2bf07646bbebd74899bd1948cf0341c98
font_02_sfnt_off0001093e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1093E 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 3dd799a6f3b313641013ffbc85e079c4c501d3bf35c6b399fe351afecb00f8ac