Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa45f9d1e0f63a00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-07-05 05:48:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 886ba8fa676be5dd234cd5dcf4292af8 SHA-1: 0f62e45989ce6b78c54270708b75ac8afc388a8b SHA-256: aa45f9d1e0f63a00b2a61b7633a7fe4762220c9398d8827b63d446f0e836c588
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, flagging it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various websites, including some hosted on compromised WordPress upload directories. The document's structure and the presence of multiple external links suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-5/file/xusezamudozemoman.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--9d0b102a6wc3y4a.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210702140949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8a43697d0671834d38b81998528e3d8/xobazofotizobupipenefitad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulrike-mayer.de/userfiles/files/kekul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourlightingbrand.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79da1b3200d46e9a412c09a5d808583e/15654501653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202106/file/rezulavutuxilukisidepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belgium-ex.com/images/blog//file/wepulubupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/ginowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tweedehandswikkelaar.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/70857064053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d7bf119326---23665217380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdbf1ddaef0---tajesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michianaorchidsociety.org/clients/2/28/2832e32407c795c8d28ffe68102aa18e/File/vofazepenobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/piwotuxajazodurijaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/93967522728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1vhr7l5kcm49ptb80qgpd2a9nt/68659613707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/mofonuviriwogisabukunigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q62b8kt0f1j8v7dhifaabet7e3/48248466510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0564002ff6---55893585506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9e13aa74e8---48784791945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marcuspietrek.de/MARCUS/files/file/10181773230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newdimension.su/userfiles/file/josafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/68143790687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldnathanlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/85581254227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-green-hope.com/uploads/files/natizubanitofexomogawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goreskyreunion.com/clients/b/ba/ba087d28c24afe6c5bc45fa062332e47/File/25469692153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=europe+geography+quiz+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off0000e16e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE16E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f980.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF980 17228 bytes
SHA-256: 34718279e0de7fa8dbcd8f37b262ed5ab8a30543eb2d046a487153b9ff15d356
font_02_sfnt_off00012650.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12650 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 0027408d6ab80706818015b5bc1bb842670081105c3f487f97b65c5b8d9ebae7