Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa62305863f471b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-07-27 19:45:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 109e0a05c96cdf5e5367abbbd876f00c SHA-1: d389fb2059a9531ea614d80f08c41e938cc8fc9f SHA-256: aa62305863f471b17f3970ef0ccbda642f6ffc8aeaa4c980edbb3867fedaff82
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of numerous distinct hosts and the 'utm_term_redirector' flag suggest an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://bocghebinhduong.com/media/ftp/file/junasipufoditodovi.pdf
    • https://jpjplumbingandheating.com/FCKeditor/file/raxefiluxoja.pdf
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/019dbaec8252c453a96312cbf881cc87/wujowipukonaxevozasud.pdf
    • http://gildiamasterov.ru/userfiles/file/94634070534.pdf
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/venixagi.pdf
    • https://123natura.com/stockages/files/muxufubixegoxoribaluji.pdf
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/dikoke.pdf
    • http://schokozentrale.de/idata/takiwunebefelen.pdf
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c718d4fe6c5d98698fb0b90e0d580fbd/39984071423.pdf
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b4fd22f39d---tixojilewubimivozarut.pdf
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d46aee79e---bopovasozelake.pdf
    • http://saharun.org/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zisofamexesavovikef.pdf
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c81d81521e9c539d0ff5f84586a82a97/80912144343.pdf
    • http://lakehighlandsrw.org/clients/863582/File/78766120445.pdf
    • https://senhewood.com/d/files/wawabi.pdf
    • http://kabaretyimpresariat.pl/Upload/file/31248588012.pdf
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/jafaxerejevar.pdf
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs//files/bewawakiwuxadosi.pdf
    • http://oipipleszno.pl/userfiles/file/sarovurexubasizup.pdf
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4u626c8a0n29v493dco8gcqm29/69822301690.pdf
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e540dba0cd9f2de352da253301c6df7a/96463777536.pdf
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc39b4c74e6---76294864179.pdf
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ada3229853a---47733948881.pdf
    • http://biosite.ru/images/news/file/96591347692.pdf
    • http://yourtruck.be/upload/ckeditor/file/fijudogogagerenafudila.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=cuantos+ladrillos+de+techo+entran+por+metro+cuadrado
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de5f.bin
465f0d3427cfab31397119cad2e8aa3ad234406407c7da29e1ef2db2e8a3b860
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE5F 18536 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010d16.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D16 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001252d.bin
e2efd7e6a8e49f4f5c74f42294bbdb83fa9998c663b178ab4e9e95f299b9ef21
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1252D 10912 bytes