Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa36a1135d6121df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-06-30 05:43:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c178bcfcba9c1e3f838186d5bb6dac94 SHA-1: 69a32fe1cb6aedc8acce94dd6b06a69a030ad6de SHA-256: aa36a1135d6121dfa8fcb3155539afca63ffb04773231074b5b2cffbaf968f34
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/va2ua241rah91m09fhs31nitg4/28363433710.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://manualismedicina.hu/fileok/file/narofavusadirutorizufomig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfulmedia.de/fotki/fotki/file/46253035673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/47187040815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurenhanger.nl/userfiles/file/tibonebugurusubinuron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8n8c2u23ifiq3j5huheqh4ur7/47097245931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73ff2d347d3fa094b7eb16f22c617d15/87457837901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb0087b5d3---zuboviredewanagilegenovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velo.hu/UserFiles//file/98589769544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fcksa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39149197278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaf73094971---fasodevoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/tabekejadobase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e9724856a34b543f40e7ebc547e9f17/29564659991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moreit.ch/productinfo/file/69798525810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h4cejl0rnh5sv4son7u46tglm5/xubisugeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomisszio.hu/tmp/figuvedigarixagonin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/radod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrollcountylawyers.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/lizavasifasepapifuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/nesonobuxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094beeb03fc3---91383232447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t3l6632tr4igo2u4osm1p8ar89/42081135923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607308b5d30f0---33466550616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/fajivorafevidaruta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=i+want+meaning+in+tamilPDF 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_off0000fefb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEFB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011712.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11712 10100 bytes
SHA-256: f3d9355790dd8e1ec1efbfa54179d56ffe32038a455882b2607b5e4aa56d9238
font_02_sfnt_off00012d8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D8B 18748 bytes
SHA-256: 890c5691c1c366846eb8efce124d754e7852c35feaaa3de9c51e8dad5b1e795a