Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa4be8ed0f42d21a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 02:54:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5da9f9bf6e0218c84b919dc10b557558 SHA-1: 46574f97fa767fddca2cfa246e9eaea577d525b9 SHA-256: aa4be8ed0f42d21a8ebf605fcd0ffbd123357863c0d710d8d244c566fc633ed5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mti+little+mermaid+jr+script+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://panyuchen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/xivujojuxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manhchenang.vn/webroot/img/files/37781279028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maclashoes.it/file/4763208212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/tebefuxabitonaxijenugum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a795d04a3bf---gabigivir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://color-gateway.com/userfiles/file/4305270975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65bff00b71a249789486f048f2439401/44994716044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegalezullo.eu/userfiles/files/fefugaxelagojimoziduwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/86994612129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sake2metustin.com/uploads/files/sadixijubedexubilawukilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/28379298800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098aa8b2ebe8---7809737628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0eb829c8f9---7943023241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodnik48.ru/content/file/vexaruju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160986a86dcf6a---75950438158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fdce55a483---13184357555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cassotech.nl/site/data/ws/files/8702710953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guowangcable.com/d/files/pavorujupebivizopabapaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartelabasligi.com/images_upload/files/29493273275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perles-del-beya.com/userfiles/file/rewemorurajadamibuviwapag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f4a3c35e8---96925132759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itemclinicchina.com/ckupload/files/73496815464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/retesofeposog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83c7f9507ac6f17228d7d9f75dd146c8/68339385352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorce-difficile.fr/userfiles/file/fugobetilisome.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_off0000e37e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE37E 19412 bytes
SHA-256: 958fe6857bc9bc2850751b15d9ed3c7bcac2c65df8cec16d34de60266b2f3d88
font_01_sfnt_off0001160d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1160D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E24 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 3981072638bc20e90067531277e7414f8891ed6f8c938c9e4c4ad1ddf2893af6