Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa40521855b824e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-07-31 12:54:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2945a53ffd5101b965e24dd4aa08dbe0 SHA-1: e94f2e4367d5cedb0669fafb77def985c29d3ff7 SHA-256: aa40521855b824e33dd6691e196b9598824054058061a554810d8788829fd5c2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The embedded URLs likely lead to further stages of infection or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=libro+de+henry+fayol+principios+de+administracion
    • http://commune-bourre.com/userfiles/file/78217249974.pdf
    • http://facilitymanagementassociates.com/survey/userfiles/files/wubaritixipilerevosuxiz.pdf
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/zijulixozinazirufebut.pdf
    • https://dbmotorbrokers.com/userfiles/file/lerojawesuvudatezep.pdf
    • http://douzonebnf.com/upload/file///14105213855.pdf
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v300q0t5htrrtm8upku6e4iso0/28242302258.pdf
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oki07unkcak03nqtu78feih8if/26216469881.pdf
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4383a7dc90---73155413527.pdf
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4hup9mt815hi0o9i53uli4clk/sewuzivevo.pdf
    • http://patroha.hu/file/67686602190.pdf
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d01662c7f35---xolajovubap.pdf
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b768313fb3---pidizu.pdf
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/19754221709.pdf
    • https://fentesmakina.com/paket/upload/files/vebutozubaxexebebovexu.pdf
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c5b2ed30377dae11cc2637ebf8c5a71/96385931869.pdf
    • https://thesaddlebank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qpc14m1b5r1peq91vv9n6vco1a/83459384605.pdf
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e80e749731f---mubowepudazama.pdf
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eacc4b17a7---giripijoxebinoxog.pdf
    • http://cppzone.ru/users//blogs/file/57032134225.pdf
    • https://fresh-cherries.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puzebitu.pdf
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29252a327f20264fd9956480291e5fb8/radelusak.pdf
    • https://easy2ticket.com/upload/files/73770738126.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e2db.bin
23be6ffc0904e28dcc9af7573e3bd7337f26409782d78aefa47ebbb1a354e168
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2DB 17608 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010fbc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FBC 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000127d3.bin
38e4c14e0c541b62eefcd6009b7195c295c570bfdaa4e4e81727dfc3a2e5441d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127D3 11096 bytes