Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa3202c36d34bbf4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-13 19:25:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5516b863ff2bed967279fac96dfd3823 SHA-1: d691cbb5ebfc9523a0fa9ae7b22364dc6644e54f SHA-256: aa3202c36d34bbf4e62083205c902d181d151a916da0055f2042ffb68feae33e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting and the use of UTM parameters suggest a phishing or scam attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e2bc23c8683e539be636437d7edeec9/medakulepu.pdf
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ff507191c4---96872249772.pdf
    • https://djennebeads.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/fiburanebikajin.pdf
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b115952e458---13681088439.pdf
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8635ea7541fd995e94a26493fee3e4b2/53464817345.pdf
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s3pt8gotc5a5k4b46km7f4j9kp/bovavesigurumijas.pdf
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb194e7ba0---76025545769.pdf
    • http://cathayred-csr.com/img-cathay/files/4618218482.pdf
    • http://linkingpeople.info/userfiles/file/vonotojis.pdf
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/817ab521d1569d8b8fdff70dbd45a394/xaxadexaluredamiw.pdf
    • http://massageindex.nl/images/uploads/todoxokafuroma.pdf
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/47856163306.pdf
    • https://netpage.info/userfiles/file/82508996414.pdf
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed0750afc6---62282183274.pdf
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6e8ca38f4---zegibaburopilorunaj.pdf
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/782876969.pdf
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ltl4ej6iaa0qst01bjveoh1jp9/bazemibefopipe.pdf
    • http://menloathertonhigh1980.com/clients/6/6f/6f83464fe0b13873896cace574d4baa5/File/44556694048.pdf
    • http://uro-medical.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/rirekulepuxexibipi.pdf
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/266nc7dbi4q3ju2tpudjrq8ld0/39522072213.pdf
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160750124882a6---86622684329.pdf
    • http://dgjst.com/upfile/file/linonagadarapokudesulet.pdf
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b79c5bbe4---25178406093.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=mixed+number+minus+whole+number
    • 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_off0000e664.bin
aa706ed2a198d7f694bcf19b38dcc4d44c8d4847f446b74026941a8051ae3fda
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE664 10672 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fea3.bin
cda2c5a49a0d993e6bc5e63c42a675753322c13600064aae97870c05836682b0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEA3 17724 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012d7b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D7B 16792 bytes