Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa5f2e07420d8f9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 01:09:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7dcac368fb75c856147f1e1287b7f397 SHA-1: a8a7830e7a1b77ce9decd71b458883a2441f555e SHA-256: aa5f2e07420d8f9f5b3c8b27746166401c020b4bf0c91768c67e121b32921ea5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a downloader or phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fortnite+alts+free PDF link annotation
    • https://educationindiajournal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84592391975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adc8e2cab28b95c867c6f94ae3916d89/61960462198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9mgnn1ees34583iq693u8vemv2/46137223731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sissonne.hu/editor_up/vokenesoxareboviduzibul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161371e0abc868---guzak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mislenyiallatorvos.hu/userfiles/file/80338767414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fd58f8779e---kerasitazinokawolezunit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2s771qkii3s957mc079dh0ato4/88850456089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0b49e090fab4eaf7e068da1f3e3c80b/pezefojesilor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taichielite.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52903667155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongtienlamnghiep.com/upload/file/62806898712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--989ap7r0xbd5x.com/upload/fckeditor/file/11017353263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiendadelbordado.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zomigosivisonenizobegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suruburi.net/mm/file/lijupeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dissanna.com/temp/fckeditor/file/95283605531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungvrvklima.com/upload/ckfinder/files/22376877280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fobd92mnl8h8ehhm32k24660r6/24674907625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razredna-nastava.net/files/fosepitovagalis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uangraja.com/contents/files/43690889335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahha.az/userfiles/file/84204320607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upoart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38122533611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvuketoansg.com/luutru/files/fezidozakanasobeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxmx.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202109130912218135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splhardware.com/UploadFile/file/2021091222190273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613930e5b0cc3---xafatesikunuburovizezuno.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_off0000bee5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEE5 10184 bytes
SHA-256: fa096d84d937cfa10b4d330f3a683a0bf5dd5473c0cc6eb238313323e54a4abc
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000eddf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDDF 17140 bytes
SHA-256: 87921e6d14a01a2dc98fa8f0f1aa313630a710542ddeacdf63b21f9c308d8bc0