Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa6b599b1803a1e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 09:49:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b11eea47ab2db54ffce2c769d5a27e32 SHA-1: d7cf560121bb2b1a26a12cefef547f48b91230de SHA-256: aa6b599b1803a1e42c3c25ce140fc7aff1ff96c939816afd9c373ba17759f45a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various websites, many of which appear to be disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a deliberate attempt to create a link farm, likely to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing or trojan PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chal+mera+putt+2+movie+online+watch+free PDF link annotation
    • http://knowleangling.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83464827071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heart-calligraphy.com/uploads/files/202109111600541642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blankheich.de/images/uploads/file/lixetasimorez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veganogle.es/uploads/ckfinder/files/goketefalunegune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coutleelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xonajoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/userfiles/files/30741961755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614626310b52b---jegugafelada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/sizawavijedafitige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landtop.com/filespath/files/20210909221826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joelcsimonesq.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zudatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asset-books.com/userfiles/file/59721665203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fetogram.ir/images/upload/files/32563204943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://union.travel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jawobenudapujak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161308d1905f6e---44591254141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resumesfromabove.com/userfiles/file/guredupavaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investgeorgia.ge/userfiles/file/83670070330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rimi.sk/userfiles/file/5518248790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tksvolga.ru/userfiles/file/78905931097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalilak1.com/userfiles/file/vuvulal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivaldelmaridaje.com/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/ruguzugodur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cherriestattoo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jekabewasajiwiselowofevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medeeatour.ro/mm/file/bivojadavakujaris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140a5055f85b---turonipiximewedozuxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a3521eb07074ba7fa4868f91f91df64/34895356196.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_off0000dc34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC34 18548 bytes
SHA-256: f014178994598f1f62c6345ec15e03e81f24e3b64692c3e85b028ffd84d891f2
font_01_sfnt_off00010c44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C44 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001245b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1245B 10980 bytes
SHA-256: d7fd63e8519ce7baed790bd2e2cd239ba9a74bd4746cd6dd1a0385b497f35c90