Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa5baff94b87a07f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 12:28:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: fafb5e20827e54decd1d30119ee1e86c SHA-1: ce32f63142edc176466e46f5a175a81933994361 SHA-256: aa5baff94b87a07f6572a17d49f59e53c830c632acd529efc952a7f8d5ea98d2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of 'utm_term=cracked+instagram+followers+apk' in one URL indicates a potential lure for social media-related scams.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cracked+instagram+followers+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://bczenekar.hu/files/file/xopovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malifer.hu/upload/file/xigepejelobon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/48739557961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marcvandewiele.com/userfiles/file/15694210086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pes.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tigogumariwilinejig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioimercedes.com/upload/files/367375651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jysfh.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-8/20210908204518625052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsemilia.it/userfiles/files/77464269453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotacri.com/userfiles/files/renowuwakus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161393c7a8ce3e---61435198284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miroslaws.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/safubidojixub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613301936958d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spc1991.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93370110366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scarpatti.com/files/gulomubaribusar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njchemland.com/upload/files/23240846457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wonkingchina.com/d/files/21105221161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137fe0061067---gilexasudiluminasun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43cfcb5976c8e474f773cc757de89e25/65879807539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hueide.com/upload/files/50632049692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sexualaufklaerung-schule.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jufaxogiwevugudali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613edf64a9403---61290105297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cauthinh.com/luutru/files/xifolovasumig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/nazuzuzasomudadupadut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micsys.in/userfiles/file/74955303255.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_off0000d6a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6A6 17208 bytes
SHA-256: 078af76ad8aa67c765f1a91b0bf1eaa977d14ebbb3d6f14cdbc631ce956b6950
font_01_sfnt_off00010344.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10344 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B5B 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 136b80df12c04170c6075dbfdfd9ed58766c7177a43afb203ae52abd2dc5c231