Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa8028b511549fb0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:22:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e0f9f4c52759e9e6761a0d5e601147bf SHA-1: 13cb29bce186f7cdbc729002b16cb89578cf0f44 SHA-256: aa8028b511549fb00c60ad548f1e206edb7fd3f64a10ea4a3bb895dfd2b038a7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The embedded URLs are likely intended to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121b144ae8e3---ginogewojoviwojoke.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jotekonybakterium.hu/userfiles/files/zodupefigufobus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09697e14aa0977fd7b58c30ab4179fe3/66470961071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspirecambodia-edu.org/userfiles/file/kalelixibajuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160727e41702bd---petigajipojefeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gevenschoenen.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sorab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021061907424622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/37022741776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa729c9d77e---88339976765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vksraja.in/fckeditor/upload/file/54855224213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810ed041638---betodusojoxamag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/31380287286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089dc4280da9---55205957951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vntdc.com/upload/fck/file/96368910513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b179d33857de0a36e28243e6ea0939e7/vemik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/pajazagujave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m8suc4j8u0nel8b429sn62pikn/16538782254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/vixadikudex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078fa01dfba9---nawusuzabit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d279a67470---18528577824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2fb7ac7850---janoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701920618dc---17547542711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ah3qh1iihtmafoovnntl6hull3/27932830491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfb8ff37424---16863282560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b300135a79a---gonomujunudijosefukudevoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=fluke+115+user+manualPDF 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_off0000d479.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD479 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC90 10316 bytes
SHA-256: 2b761847d5029862dfb748d054558cdc0aa8e54fe67af8a980c8094e677642e2
font_02_sfnt_off000103e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103E1 19248 bytes
SHA-256: acd7c828f08074496a5633c6e76a1e1fde20a52903c323426b05ed60706fee44