Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa80a5df7a855aad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 14:01:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: e81668eb2c67b62ab437c578fd390f1a SHA-1: dcdb2c69d21cc48154d0823c1998493973c94b09 SHA-256: aa80a5df7a855aad70970ac385a6cfb272f4362c8f24ee86bed04887d1c170d0
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external sites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed for SEO poisoning or phishing. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic suggests the document may instruct the user to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.lnk-creation.fr/upload/file/64061382530.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/puvatobopuzanefapurirume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/etjko9lus23lj9v0rjtocdrdis/53397386498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmina.ru/uploads/files/nutazot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lederstuehle-shop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/notifuwasimufepenijur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607964fd7f634---gasote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/webufujugajenojebob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f17f0e012---84994966968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/kunipijab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://septumdent.com/img/userfiles/files/nufibepajejefenazufezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2fe672af83---vujakosoporipiropifimepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/datemanubogurilom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/welutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zgkimsteszew.pl/img/upload/files/wijujiwin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/83744860721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608064ee81fb9---44821112048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technocom.pl/editor/file/99660452737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/72226670839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56fa2078e7cdf9e6e0d4cc65f0e109ca/71948666477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hollywoodterrace.org/clients/863344/File/wowatafigatur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poiskvod.ru/images/file/63588267772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://circolodelpistone.ch/userfiles/file/27550339921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160715ddba2188---keferudupodusemuzeluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/24073324811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=word+with+z+and+aPDF 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_off0000f296.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF296 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010aad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AAD 10136 bytes
SHA-256: 3d8471706852bcbc0d1bd46c1168c3ca720f01472035f719e63f614cc94d7666
font_02_sfnt_off00012151.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12151 17384 bytes
SHA-256: ee85bb2a11916cdc3a7a4ec007ac92dd7ba33a90bbe1cf282dde8f413c2a9179