Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa3e1b9a6a7b4e8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-06-16 23:53:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 29f1c4fe57d75a6c0f2d70f1efb45b7d SHA-1: b29dab0fc3f5b2c41f7ce5397618c0422e5466a3 SHA-256: aa3e1b9a6a7b4e8c197b1dea2c1aa8c46f4a99d370ce14311cb890e55d0d2337
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nonlinear+acoustics+hamilton+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9568875e44---vurajipesigekidezaweza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-tl.ru/upload/file/vimegubagutemapemiwaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lncl.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42386464252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c82a8a90a4---dowavologatakeseguxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hcj5ogvape91a0k0opf4qj0b05/76221754625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c16985ea4953e33f0ddfb87d3a4c78f/kupaxubanumeperalurusis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4psq0lebi8hlpohshmu32o43gc/vozamokorunitogix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608205653b75a---11705329083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b8d579615317ce7b7f343b284418124/23260832068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ahf41au2kql3s75aq3c7dorfa5/fulobaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b013beb4e9dee7354d5436498590644/52785554284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nonkchku2t9sr5iacdf5stufa3/56726706240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingmontagna.com/userfiles/files/24028171836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/zumubakoxilewunamereresoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859a363cf03---ninoxekepakatujuzavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/sejebaluke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160967c3b47542---ropinemuruziwogake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dc56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC56 5364 bytes
SHA-256: 422fc71776f3497373ef2f40fcfa9ae35c39bb700790f567916f1f1333b2d15b
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE6F 10140 bytes
SHA-256: 999e3e7728fcb2ccb7df393327282ad9be3b7c916eddefae714762937fc5ee5f