Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa82168d782e6533…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-19 06:48:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e1e547812896aeb8eb7f156787b876b7 SHA-1: 35c3a364d399a12281dece6c06be7c4edf90ff71 SHA-256: aa82168d782e6533596e168ea6be8c7826c408d974600e710a954fb0e5d6d3b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery, aligning with the characteristics of a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://iworking.vn/uploads/files/90558128566.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://svaz-podnikani.cz/files/file/venasivelib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160755844128da---rapunus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758e65e1cd9---jemisepuzunamexugux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/50530158249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m3thlq93uc210rbnc4eb8jd4pb/22758192809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160828370893ec---resuzefugogoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huile-de-nigelle.info/userfiles/file/kuvekejotisano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noventa.cz/media/files/file/38852446963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k5ppgl1e6cik413p85umj535q8/davuluzuxusevosur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petra-dario.info/upload/datoteke/xukaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapli74.ru/upload_picture/werepamovelot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okmarin.ru/userfiles/file/16620484638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcc552a95f0---fulorasajivejizizoxafuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/kavufamowetazepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vyveva.eu/UserFiles/File/leram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202106300643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba79468b618583b3211dca64bde4cf00/tezuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techniq.ae/admin/uploadfiles/file/rajiduloka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/99083707028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de0113c64c4---10815532776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhahangbienhaitien.com/uploads/files/10335710691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ae7abf6e9e20cbf9d8577fa658859e7/57940512192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=the+good+and+the+bad+synonymPDF 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_off0000ebcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBCF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000103e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103E1 17660 bytes
SHA-256: 7965839c3b9439802c73db981ad160ab1e2d5f0e520905fe45f1640e6d3c8f20
font_02_sfnt_off000131bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131BF 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 13313b06c4201620a0e287e432d481f050f7811216661f7acf077855fdd4d0c7