Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa7310683c6be3a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 10:09:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 305d50c0c01969597a3175e35b5ffe66 SHA-1: c2ead0081769115c9e8d0ebce124b806371ba3e6 SHA-256: aa7310683c6be3a2a3e9864b630ae871f05d46fdd73ff8638b8af8b4e8268673
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=beneficiary+type+meaning PDF link annotation
    • https://ekransamara.ru/files/gagarinowudiduginesopan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/salezibonujumiseka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607722738a17b---xutazur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/matonodarafojumujise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebre.com/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/18765784530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099df0bc2566---gobafofuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0lm2ql4ou9a6mp378v75fn07hf/89637502305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/15651904791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e870517cfbd---fubowulev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.be/userfiles/file/33409696524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076324dc3ced---42993638084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba5ed3ad5a6---39346281227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paliukenas.lt/i/File/tafimisukiwanipus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narnivet.com/userfiles/files/97416557146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspiredindianfoundation.org/uploads/vimuwemubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e76168f1e72b1975738bfe4eeedf7bde/nizipuvad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///72015275545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de3b3a3f7afb09d21b5b6a99fbebe7a2/vidupab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stinpo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ridosogupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/lexiratomosobor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/fodirevitokopipogupupaxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4749dc366b5562fed003833bbbe117c5/rafemaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bethelcommunityone.com/clients/880032/File/73845158576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iominneapolis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cf7193851a39a49e80e54d1b9a290e8/85292841110.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_off0000f086.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF086 17688 bytes
SHA-256: f0937b92ad390903c5a7cfa39dadb3e9ee8e2cd1813fc14ed52d99fe029fc8cf
font_01_sfnt_off00011e51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E51 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 9bf612ba4501e80f1a0dfb50158c1341f5d9f54c1b02daf074445b27ef8ef3a5
font_02_sfnt_off000136c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1