Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa5cc965b95f25a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-31 10:59:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0948619bc0ac1cbfd7c5c0dc1cd877e0 SHA-1: a32513c2c839bc4e182f3cf1f749eb0a151f09f0 SHA-256: aa5cc965b95f25a45016f6ee0281d4c232ec11182a5738dc7815c91ba29d81b4
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains heuristics indicating it is a link farm and a lure for password-protected archives, often used to hide malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of a download button lure further supports the phishing and payload delivery scenario.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eca7da68e38---43572665096.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b363891fef1---62705396592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/frq033uptjbugg7mqqos5o1e70/tubuxumijusebil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/034df0595714c2db61157b1eee02d487/21630863698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faurerom.com/userfiles/file/42490555073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jooli.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ziludili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szamitogep-szerviz-javitas.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xegokevobat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab657dc1de2---maxibalovazukofuxupotos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c99437820---29682570739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5ce31912b572b8a4595b76c8743d600/wejozokis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fittbikese.hu/files/file/nesapakamix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/45095496885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/34811018122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2deb08edb---40671853042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winpoasia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90061079614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a789761e8fe---64405640711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkalaris.com/contents//files/jusosesaravokepowog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4b248f41a1---jisujeduvuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seikai.jp/free_images/files/tevosekivorigires.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kanat.com/upload/ckfinder/files/49818967040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/68659297629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=rar+password+cracker+macosPDF 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_off0000ed9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED9B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000105ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105AD 17244 bytes
SHA-256: 534bd6f3dc35c44525e11a9aeff963ca6467508a1c0d9fb8dab67b757e5e604e
font_02_sfnt_off0001331b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1331B 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 1df344565d2f7db6d45f0016c63307c9b5412a304b8e4c98f54d342702650d4b