Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa1ce713747e42bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-06-14 16:43:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: add5cd6f4ae2e306dcd165de55286259 SHA-1: e5967c08a7545d08d85c346f534251ba0a1d43d8 SHA-256: aa1ce713747e42bb9b4cca8b3b9444c1310fca98d55e3217059e21a8cc81553a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicates malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+underfell+full+version PDF link annotation
    • http://web68s.com/upload/files/pijibuxajosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalboncostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/24263446139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160906d1bd9660---15178990425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turinhotelcompany.com/userfiles/files/jixujazuwoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2sqout2u6kgp8bh4mjivl76mjr/netaxitalajusatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drsubhashawale.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pexofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retroldn.com/userfiles/file/tofetekirirexesedeweno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093fa9f33a9a---menize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210601161624564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e7c63605bb---bipapanujatafabel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad85dce5815---kixokedesutuvuzezajekufop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607488f4595c7---77823468074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fygl.net/uploads/file/110004521125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiszelyugyvediiroda.hu/docs/file/75816182609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18faafdf2e612a4c505b307606bfd95d/54150258570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b87ad38f780---5312665432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160709907a08c4---1655708722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e00c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE00C 5052 bytes
SHA-256: a29c818a0d8ce683202441af40d4794e7977c7425242949010eb65bdef05abdc
font_01_sfnt_off0000f169.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF169 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 64dea2d3a20e9cb431cea87aad58b5cca81b50f402f5a2782cef3ad0e1707dc4