Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa8b1581d766dae0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-08-01 03:01:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e96b258ffd2fb642a1d76f83e00ec51f SHA-1: 6b8b5537ea996c822926a510d12c86d5baff136a SHA-256: aa8b1581d766dae0bbf2fa0e45c9a36fd1d5f26685e194fc61c1fbff1e7a82e5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to trick users into downloading or accessing further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+download+coreldraw+x7+full+version+gratis
    • http://detector-billetes.com/Imagenes/file/sufukoxuwinala.pdf
    • http://baraanduliaptti.org/userfiles/file/bosivezetunuvoxemurukof.pdf
    • http://ownlines.com/upfiles/file/20240225179.pdf
    • http://didocrosby.com/imagenes/file/virebuj.pdf
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a93b6b3893157d7a9ad7e4d33b8cbf5/12030316704.pdf
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a9d67b89917cec5834b1ee8537324a5/1560695863.pdf
    • http://patrick-jardinage.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/biwemagujogexosinuf.pdf
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a67f48649a5---xoboken.pdf
    • http://preciz.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/25228789340.pdf
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdb373e395c---pisuposolijewifewatopo.pdf
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a12e387149c---29992707280.pdf
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609482190f449---47487212031.pdf
    • http://cestovni-postylka.eu/userfiles/file/penogo.pdf
    • http://mesamiesdallas.org/clients/e/ee/ee8f1390623de39be1ac2b47a321719d/File/nisejelisa.pdf
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b36f17bc384---toribanugebejokukama.pdf
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aae64233b6c---visubux.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104763be2fac---jadawaraw.pdf
    • http://mabo-meccanica.eu/userfiles/files/fabojonikulu.pdf
    • http://wawabed.pl/uploads/userfiles/file/xazizuvexijirosevitu.pdf
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160857b5186c0b---23996290214.pdf
    • http://zelene-centrum.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tusiriketidezeso.pdf
    • https://www.bocamvigliesrooms.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11627d7b9de4944fe3c171d531a8ca4a/jeviromoxunivikufupoti.pdf
    • http://trimblehighalumni.com/clients/84492/File/97730670829.pdf
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2babfee5ffbc8d3ffd43496ccb9e738c/kurove.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f388.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF388 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010b9f.bin
3a63e13798c2bd1df9b72cbadf05420f72f0e43dda2be1b7dd5191b1ba08dbde
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B9F 11032 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012551.bin
bddf7255911bf3c269319181a2d8fdec68d029cfd99b788d7094a7995290b020
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12551 17636 bytes