Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa53a07b73f760cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 03:12:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 150cde05b7c52db334bba2ae41db0ff5 SHA-1: c9eecb5f9cb588e9c15b089fae012fa8a79b4550 SHA-256: aa53a07b73f760cd6f4a29bcd407ae6c5d328c0d26f8fc8db4c22728daff3427
156 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. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pop+slots+free+spins PDF link annotation
    • http://onishi-kyosendo.jp/archive/70579989780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a80158c51---fememisewamur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b83a29b4e---lutidigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grapevinewinerytrail.com/clients/876125/File/18229725198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cm8caae5d9a0a0a1dxk6dd.com/user_img/files/77431080190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushi-belovo.ru/files/kawobiwujunisave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xszhuhai.com/uploadfiles/files/setukanuvezuxozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vistobrasil.net/uploads/file/zewetolivowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lnlphg1jkrf6kg3gambbrr0fe0/tusibiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ceccf6309c---35202947378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072419742ce6---lomirubatogamolijozodexik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vds-construct.pl/userfiles/file/dizelebosifabepazif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d2c36165e3af7887f79b8db04d6a7a8/ruvesikedunak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haniltm.kr/upfiles/editor/files/48948867740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efuegypt.org/userfiles/file/gadutogepudesofosukatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc5cca29fc4482253fa5caf87178f9d2/faxemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinivetmadonnadirosa.eu/userfiles/files/85862442812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27c613e902aac73aa3dc16ce7518f9a4/vomabobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/635321481044025884fb06b9d007a576/81654378302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a7c5bbee36---63172895798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vnos.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/62370385438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmina.ru/uploads/files/99115662163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/dafaragudokewok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eiak.org/upload/editor/files/rexififivadudojevu.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_off0000bbd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBD4 14996 bytes
SHA-256: cebbf8c7f96fd92dc5445aa53b8b187378a8da268187ea8fd1df0fd9c3b72031
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1DF 10188 bytes
SHA-256: 1f29db71d51829b49361f1d6edeface8c767161c1be30a76a90c77df55b5e7b7
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1