Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa6fa2e83ee9f9f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-07-05 08:27:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 9a0c5ae8fc9d596bb79b9d7929c659d4 SHA-1: 0dab9834b1eec892a71896e7de1174d22457c149 SHA-256: aa6fa2e83ee9f9f76642529dcb16a8f84daf12a9783d640cfc52770dfbfa2492
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified the PDF as a link farm pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports this, aiming to trick users into downloading a payload from one of the identified URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://noithattamphuong.com/upload/files/78031677062.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://istrouma1971.com/clients/9/9b/9b88b062b8d6af44b28e209fcb06d7d5/File/zitakos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwong-cheong.com/userfiles/gudadejijiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasyo.net/files/file/jurevurakawap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whewfamily.com/clients/12004/File/vakobarisatorumatiguxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maciejabramowicz.pl/upload/files/file/suxoxanadaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnmanagementsolutions.in/uploads/vurenixuded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/87822131250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a66399c89a3---13212908006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aufifgna6p4cokdfms8288pl60/98292820087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68m6c7iplrhg28thbu56oq5iio/werofawazikazeganojoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078708150ef1---tawedenasekavin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5ec5c81d9---69729680029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9fefdd9e9c---zunejugifagisugala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universal4shipping.net/userfiles/file/19087276961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t27pm596d5f9i665c8lcuuujs5/pemafunavakabexenoxisudun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/rowesototixaloxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6609b62eebdbab2d122e5c29c364b273/sejitokapuzugugevumub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getadoc.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59295300799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesurmakina.com/userfiles/file/42247501868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bad912adc5e47f2e3c6887b2726d772d/jinarapedimagevufiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/apea3j4fk4b4v6i5cjrn9bsbj4/15612983994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096957be6b36---vemenipobuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=red+and+yellow+learnershipPDF 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_off0000fb4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB4D 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 4403856a2c89129851454e6ab04a1407da6748bed3e154f5d6b05ef649866870
font_01_sfnt_off0001139d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1139D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012baf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BAF 16952 bytes
SHA-256: 43754fd1095355253fcfae3ae2bdae601e8055d07828faca6b0443c4cdb0911f