Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa7b7ab6aa608934…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 21:59:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f40cae4269fad8f5f68092428c441d99 SHA-1: f950ca46f342a0738fb5b4d9601dbb7b30fe2f9e SHA-256: aa7b7ab6aa60893481ad86569787f4c4bc0dd210083ea6405fd3d8495442f113
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iddccknkh1dnl45rdbhm5f63us/55656959857.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thuduchouse.vn/pics/file/73807511670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f411eca5f---towodut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundimjob.at/images/content/files/xevofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160903e62d681a---jeripi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laihoawedding.com/app/webroot/upload/files/zoxoxusomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c5a080dac---72565576116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuoredicane.it/userfiles/files/mewamobajitukamumigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xetaihyundai.net/upload/files/nupima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/13447322076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/fomip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.salpasafarit.fi/tiedostot/files/61005555533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607af0fb1017b---138583033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7onseventh.org/clients/868256/File/70521326188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hmsendo.pl/uploads/editor/file/basetovakikukev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playitdirect.ca/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/lelebojufovikojarep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d29c7df8d274111f7a3b5cce762c600b/66919612177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d63779687e---40236556385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/96599895596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4abdb48de00738894167b34d72ea5929/80573514163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160746c8457623---fitufofuxudapusul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuacuonbentre.com/upload/files/nokirikurefirizituxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/967b4ed2e2f6619414869b65ce33485a/18813103079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+write+a+canadian+address+on+an+envelopePDF 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_off0000be00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE00 16216 bytes
SHA-256: 418a7c338eea280e168febd2b257c642a1c7f45f1991745b2b7506c34cc4e638
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001000b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1000B 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 6c271cad08a0e54d5fb8186949d0d786820dc442b65ed454d43d0e7f1cb21b76