Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa199a7867fbd7e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 08:23:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 3137e30e8e044ed6879a1e7651fd637a SHA-1: 88ee28b89f795cc24156d956c4183f4c38bbf1db SHA-256: aa199a7867fbd7e36a7ce1ca8d01f5e45df35a427b85d6d7f6db6bc06d45faed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs suggest a spearphishing attachment vector, leading to exploitation for client execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=style+indirect+anglais+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://wedooverseas.com/userfiles/file/mibofatasasiwopazudovafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/gelusenefadigopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daotaoyduoc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/unbgk114ihgdb11e0dffabbni9/nutuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerescommoditiesltd.com/Images_upload/files/79966868323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df682d8403dd338f1db9fa4d6c0b1d59/fatotaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0u9h3rhr76nr92sms4l185mhfo/kibuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laduses.nl/image/file/xelewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautifulmoda.com/userfiles/files/bidalex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3137f4e5e0---xijuragurewurivumebum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6mpte1nptriml5lj4ei7mibvb/25377259923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldnaturalfood.com/image/upload/File/sabedaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalensi.com/public/File/puwiwelape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splhardware.com/UploadFile/file/2021090708305273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/1772112098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etalentlink.com/uploadfile/file///2021082814522626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekorob.pl/userfiles/file/lofigisosugavodalule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/kunolupoxabipuluxobul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608255684b74b---4577473590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/40431895267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc5c834541---27096077507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cupanghitam.com/contents//files/77496680555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodermclinic.com/file_media/file_image/file/1327748315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b96ee5c085987d23d5f64d679d2e7ab/55220622824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fpole.ru/sadm_files/saxupizikujivezuvagu.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_off0000d6c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eeda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEDA 18636 bytes
SHA-256: 96d368460a733efa45d7f8906de8204069dfd8c2379bc1166c68d6b14ddb8d02
font_02_sfnt_off00011f93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F93 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 8bf43d27ca5878522c5cfcd6c51ee2113733049bc26052050d5a4446e4ee3587