Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa38dab28e842617…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-09-28 23:16:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 500946265fc0091b52782b99c7c729ee SHA-1: b09f6f4cfaac5205ad693cb566de266b376b18f9 SHA-256: aa38dab28e842617818de2ac2ca18baed3f07019f7a5397c827523677c03ad87
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. Heuristics indicate it is a link farm and contains lures for payment redirection and callback phishing. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it is designed to trick users into revealing sensitive information or initiating fraudulent transactions, likely through a compromised CMS upload link.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise pattern
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a4a3fb68b1---6575411784.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://allineers.morefriendship.com/upload/files/65795657221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegioidongphuc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/526706708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhavezbozi.cz/data/file/57926807324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhipuma.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/34214657026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13323816647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eternaseguros.net/files/files/84741975077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baobianhkhang.com/upload/files/defixazurozukaxofub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velocimapper.com/webfiles/file/12212017590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ityab.com/cache/fck_files/file/2045491105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gearonlaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/3402438014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertoniamministrazione.it/bertoni/public/file/dufubuxemufamimexawitob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioindelicato.com/userfiles/files/58753684607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamel2.pl/userfiles/file/xasanuwavuguwibareraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c00675228f---21222390527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyuemu.net/assets/202109/files/20210926131306951450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taemyung.com/data/upload/file/tafinajomipobaduwemapif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mlbcsimleague.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kokadamofowijunilivagufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tolaniprojects.com/userfiles/file/60863534326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbezcba9a5aggb3j.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11599863446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modero.vn/upload/files/15269707313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptownfallschurch.com/uploads/files/19736768807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e9854bfa681ad28eb6ea8cf62217b69/57422446983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+transfer+my+email+account+to+a+new+android+phonePDF 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_off0000af43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF43 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c755.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC755 16184 bytes
SHA-256: 50b970c971250547c0b5e3245816e7161e452dfc899902bcbc5196ac371100e5
font_02_sfnt_off0000efcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFCD 11176 bytes
SHA-256: 23d6efbbbfb4eab7db06f34668cffcbd5a0b5adb455e4c4466144d5f2283298b