Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa573438d0863cd8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-18 09:15:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 394f1c35afe746e28bbe713e4d310a79 SHA-1: cdd92c5657bc746c129d5f04d4ea6c64eed0f3be SHA-256: aa573438d0863cd8af8fe947752017b28ae033ea30784f93adfa4b35ffa24540
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which are either compromised CMS uploads or hosted on disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. The embedded URLs suggest a tactic of directing users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 http://itps-group.com/uploadfiles/file/tixinejoluvix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.nachtruhe.info/up/files/96122060655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irisapp.cn/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210904/file/16307182351017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86e4ddcd1c6573ae0b34b7ba6906c92e/72967577893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alicantea.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/21248022503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nezamirekhaseafoods.com/userfiles/file/55655114490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimbark.sk/editor_uploads/files/9073150882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9meclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gidijupusasolategakikesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aicpwdosaeast.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24421488301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiendadelbordado.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62670404749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decaldankinh.net/upload/files/34137419514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebookmarkcafe.com/uploads/files/rumigaxixifugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614393b6c69f8---56584987829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/321893e2bba210ce65e0b089c0d616b3/30811043258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tunguoilon.tunhua.vn/ipp/images/uploads/files/womofere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jokilaaksonratsastajat.fi/file/zumolitugon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfsroanoke.com/home/tfs/public_html/new/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17603230999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megatekspb.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/tezemumunenalavitolus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://favourtec.com/attachment/file/kuzuzobevezulukebopix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161326730dc70b---38905603172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccsctda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210905_193217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peter-crooks.com/userfiles/file/20365608494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupburuemas2.com/contents/files/5026913189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-praha.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jilekorabexedofud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceraunavoltapizzeria.it/userfiles/files/nivanutigopumolar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=mirc+chat+for+androidPDF 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_off0000d5b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5B3 19372 bytes
SHA-256: 82d75410927fd3f62e175cd80c5c260872c781eae54368ee4665ede92381411a
font_01_sfnt_off000108a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000120c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120C0 10220 bytes
SHA-256: 86d57199b8115cbdd9c1f29191baa356ee392d6bc00478464b4e47c4585270da