Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa57bd946ec68a5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 11:03:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6ae254cc36b13d007d28917c794ed811 SHA-1: 14cdcc0430e976fe580cbc30daef554ac2cba190 SHA-256: aa57bd946ec68a5fe9222afc7706a1dfb532082ac97ba4fc5044e7d7b87182fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary goal appears to be directing users to external, potentially malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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://melz-feu.ru/upload/firujovinuvubojado.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ac4e0a558f7f8e679fe4e8059e4970e/64722090879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081de3e26027---pitinibovutezitidulirepam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o1tj2fipiequcnh816t45hp3ap/44066825634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egavilanes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sukut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612674209b6d4---66716142316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vintageguitar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kugejitefisuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomlitkom.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tomukifajumilezulasexabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/telefuxewifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b21436d7731---38130679783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/29111883237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-29/20210529030416290619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rh4-h1tapi-turbo.com/contents//files/40553393311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0a6f37b64a---66376316215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6024a45e3---gonenudafafalevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cfcfc9c711---vufuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608578061a7cb---fesawokixewenire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160722d3bdc43c---11702674103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implant-drill.com/userfiles/file/52533932535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moyamoya.center/images/hand_uploaded/files/18547411853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rchs1964.com/clients/5/58/580abc73d3aac4ea3a2bdd7c75327783/File/jazotisaxedis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f887dd1b13c---nowebebejafugilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/pajuzufetobasumik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fokusmedia.com/images/uploads/vazirabemevubed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=redfield+revolution+owner%27s+manualPDF 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_off0000e8fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8FE 17132 bytes
SHA-256: 079e4b5f0facfa51f9f450d6599bcfc395ef78b584c3fe68540a82c5107f1ff9
font_01_sfnt_off00011569.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11569 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D80 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 849833b96df5ae80532d753edecd155c8ca24d60a81768529f3179d6bf28207a