Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa385926a3c2e158…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-08-19 04:29:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 16d5c5010a844e3281328fa8f80c90af SHA-1: 6acdf1b3c90d5d2945d6e69fc9e54e01e1066805 SHA-256: aa385926a3c2e158ff671758f6bc5611c9dc8e90db4b6fcbfc9d4d093c69e31b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or redirecting users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the numerous embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 http://snnet.kr/board_pds/fckeditor/2021/06/file/metaselutovodavabozakag.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jvcc.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2106041919042674273cgoe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaint-house.com/images/blog//file/59197750027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrans911.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/35838780304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d06c16d42a---88020483155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/xejuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b0a3ae9a7b---duwidupofutamat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78790342029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrybalko.ru/files/tenudoxopok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t7062tjjej3mlpneer9t9gmqn0/33276781582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yantrasearch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12777176881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2be915175d---raritezag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b52jkvrjjibjuruah0a54d6tc/28970234570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandviewcommunity.com/userimages/mopojetesefifejoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bharatandcompany.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47373299210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7a142bad07---44927650911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41598d99d9bc341d99e17ea4cb71918d/vizevakulinagawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klimavill.com//data/editorfile/telotofojibelavope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbmotorbrokers.com/userfiles/file/sojapeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karimeh.com/public/userfiles/file/sijodinofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a90a1c168---jotipofipule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b924555ae9b---58975698973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dsjlots86qtapj44sipcg997q/luvataxokunegabomimusor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artstudiodesign.it/userfiles/files/rotuzolomesuwadoxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+tell+if+covalent+or+ionic+bondPDF 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_off0000f206.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF206 17076 bytes
SHA-256: 07f2de4aa2f6816bae049bb46162312bb8bbd42f03f0481494d65a0e1f75487c
font_01_sfnt_off00011e9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E9E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000136b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136B5 10584 bytes
SHA-256: d89bf96ed00fc48f3237a1188e44f5c6d338964087c097c1b38c8bdab026c0a2