Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa62f0fff86bc7f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-14 07:49:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 3f996e659137ba5f8a4913c280683fd8 SHA-1: 5f9455b4b22fe848ee131a9fdaa3dac3b94193bd SHA-256: aa62f0fff86bc7f2fb2946c48c3f619632360bef288ab7e1109a651d410c0562
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm directing users to multiple external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The presence of a download button heuristic further supports a deceptive user-interaction workflow.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614006f224ef2---durad.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gidromall.ru/img/uploads/file/kodinakojutaxixobivixoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2ctrading.org/cms_upload/files/27895056315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sicilalluminio.it/userfiles/files/74868205623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161356b04d8f85---48213655672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anduong-nhatthanh.com/uploads/news_file/65546802030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themetamorphoseprogram.com/userfiles/file/xebegujijevetiledi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitakhealing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42497947523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jasz-pap.hu/UserFiles/file/zewidivowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unewstoday.com/task/userimages/file/86029440248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vertracapital.com/uploads/files/69331259240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rancholasmonturaspremios.com/campannas/file/nanufofagatewife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katour.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zexorukexana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tearose-kitchen.com/sites/default/files/images/imcefile/gilagiladij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dellalontra.it/userfiles/files/potagobisodetotap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientushinko.com/images/file/jekituxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrybalko.ru/files/kutosezugas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakesushilakehavasu.com/uploads/files/posajinunat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enovosti.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vusazukuxasafasatebowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorofilmes.com/Uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/serikodopojuverapatun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inarchengineering.it/userfiles/files/zodejobibubowinosakegoven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duongthuy.net/userfiles/file/pejazedunepurorefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130d1e3cb357---61022140980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc.soo.jp/file/44014320961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://briljant-maleri.se/UserFiles/files/58000741159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=busybox+full+apkPDF 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_off0000e3a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3A4 20112 bytes
SHA-256: c2e6633ed7356271f98e9dbba9d5b3516184ded951632cea4b1356fac8c234d9
font_01_sfnt_off0001187c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1187C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013093.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13093 10428 bytes
SHA-256: 72394ea98bac1f6756abb2bc44f7cf6858a8a93f70f002a56c15ba3d260f636f