Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa87cfcbe690ba0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:11:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 73f7a7679ba9749ffda82af490798ccb SHA-1: c1820da3fe3b79bef390e53969d72f821c79fab8 SHA-256: aa87cfcbe690ba0d23d1f5555a82e45090686e2ae4b95688b918019bc5e25860
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly supports this assessment. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings suggest an intent to redirect users to malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7495

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://betheaskssd.com/flash/betheaskssd.com/file/jebukadurita.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a562efcb553e50db7bf8472321e80361/jonirefefiwojizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/273flc3jak48pdj76cd45dk9qt/86619139122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawaniint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fofese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160997537d5561---10991712843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softtox.com/new/userfiles/file/juxilajopanifen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2493304d1934a8074678042230fe8c2d/14756617188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliothequedesarts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuxowitix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83116f2c9043ce305bcfdfb8718c6682/mowena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce60284b78---35978067791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----itbbfrdrdbd4bgy6gi.xn--p1ai/webroot/files/files/kumenirosizumebob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ccc67a4ff67782a0694fe6c43fb96e3/batotedunitinelal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086be526d065---lufejafimubepejex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volamtuyetthe.com/userfiles/file/siwomagirifafepaxaluxobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/51768340552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f3b8cf3cda---xabijutixulagawovopoton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelicanfinancialnetwork.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57433941034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dec7b1bcdaab36b6ca4844647b2a4b1/ripuvugisivos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dbaaef2cde---zaguxufudemeteguli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d0307ba13d6d783d389424d53621849/nejipajokav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pujcovnanaradi-tvarozna.cz/userfiles/files/toxetewoxerabatofunoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+mark+sheet+in+excel+2007+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d373.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD373 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB85 18288 bytes
SHA-256: f23f6e8699979a9b64695bdca04b17eb55c3eecdcb4b723bb8f9efb74979461c