Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa3ae621bf926a74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 13:32:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 32b7290493047fae743f1b694c6ac175 SHA-1: 9ac84f39f70a2b5854e0a642d01ba354f7406f6f SHA-256: aa3ae621bf926a7484b20776b811a604e4da1067874d44e2ed29a286fc454f5f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4c05bdb59f---27910659167.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gngn0i69fq08hsqtv4pqfn8sse/40632791542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk1.com/uploads/files/wazusataxaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingchengs.com/jingchengs/ckfinder/files/20210725114152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-winstal.pl/userfiles/file/reboserutipal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://organicfertilizerproduction.com/d/files/54691730126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northmarking.com/userfiles/files/16583557957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/60124971387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f05fca1fe27---44834037534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/9403453168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/defom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingpiazza.eu/userfiles/files/vexaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tk36a4cflpibl6m26jbsv9071t/21002256543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/ditawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gosselindesign.com/images/from_fckeditor/fichiers/64923884042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatour.ru/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47529593173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc580.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-7-30/20210730231633666653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karate-talence.com/newsite/userfiles/files/vowulenivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skinrepublic.vn/webroot/img/files/81059531443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac32ff584c0---75155941872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e39b904c30---12114606664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607317b6afc6a---pulojoziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=buon+vino+mini+jet+wine+filter+manualPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43b95128dfed32b4a228ca5bdc5010f5/pugopibuvonokuzuj.pdfIn 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://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_off0000d51a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD51A 18000 bytes
SHA-256: 93e35fa4afe99e9b183811ad570b6fe269394cdb007918ee12374b327d7038ae
font_01_sfnt_off000102b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B8 10640 bytes
SHA-256: befdd18fc9b5dba2991094d1095da46b75c475ac45112b9b8c3eccdc89839482
font_02_sfnt_off00011b1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B1E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1