Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa56ec731cd457a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 18:09:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 111e7a259daf4c0bc435fbd5d1af83b2 SHA-1: 1eb5ff9cc899c0d32dd827b557a71146baa41622 SHA-256: aa56ec731cd457a7ae712aa99b3d3389ab751190e325f6ca5db5e2c2f77fbc26
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3kfecp0hn7gq8rov0i4t0b5k5/13569145846.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ku6j9eqoa2snu7p2r398a7mulr/27600010794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/38133240171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://growourworld.com/clients/83159/File/meliwetiwamufamowugab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americasbestmanassas.com/uploads/files/nidumujepaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mg3ibip6vickqv57dvhqpdf043/fozejawitogugesazud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolecasetta.it/userfiles/files/47400375474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportnazona.bg/f/uploads/files/penamaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiercontractinginc.com/files/file/11692965206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c8f53356a4652fc1d69d5fa09604cb4/53577509430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfe806edf08dc77640c334beff3a22a3/58485651195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/27536798282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novahealthclinic.ca/userfiles/file/mizelowanob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagostena.it/userfiles/files/pagun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079605a3c084---jajuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/setomegij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b5d9247724c7ec5f3cae3591cbde2bb/tifuluwozuvefolawumekake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uv725kgesnvg7m50n2qhcgvr55/67681085429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36e9aed516f728054a14cb47ebb1614d/16310638000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phaptangpgvn.net/app/webroot/upload/files/35608579296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmnavarra.es/ckeditor/files/57942555395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlh.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/75007557331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071dc9cea882---45519888721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=aritmetik+dizi+pdfPDF 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_off0000e106.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE106 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f91d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF91D 10192 bytes
SHA-256: 970759d4ed4ed90774ef210e30efca3551ecc8d199c734cb3ffaad4519c14217
font_02_sfnt_off00010ffd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FFD 19088 bytes
SHA-256: 2a736e26f78e5faf8962992916df7c7421fd3ce99ad267110824b197fff9b7df