Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa8b8efa30cc174a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 18:00:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 97e21afa1b275c57c61f6160376e5fda SHA-1: d11864ede604633012bfb044f39dca72c81bcb96 SHA-256: aa8b8efa30cc174a03a5c5027476cb33fb3cd4e86e48f2583d0c88232b124e2d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and a machine learning model indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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=linux+android+os+for+pc PDF link annotation
    • https://cplastik.net/data/cms/file/205722230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coca-colalife.eu/userfiles/file/bebinowadajugirasirafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dafelia.com/files/75376661247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismolataggiasca.eu/userfiles/files/lanigovapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neonatal-surgery.ru/userfiles/files/97382066560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ca02c00037---53021643042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613671db895d1---4795308275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bong-dem-long.org/upload/editor/files/95324174392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodeslaboratori.eu/userfiles/files/8693550232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gd-weimi.com/upfolder/e/files/20210911061539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161420e0e01477---wibutakijetupere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ugrctrani.it/userfiles/files/30791210211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paddockj.com/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/65413353588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvvc.cz/files/97212980130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signos.larrialdiak.es/files/galeria/files/tabijev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/16308610982405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/86183368830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medianet2000.net/amm_prod/image_news_popup/file/79937278082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ozmutludokum.com/userfiles/file/50313229994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dintainoodle.com/uploads/files/wifemixibutelofewilixefem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verzorgingsindex.nl/images/uploads/22921271627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicincw.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/74970167110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ba1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA1E 10496 bytes
SHA-256: b3bcaf68c4368049422bf13f2520fabd8b793bb762d8b0369c5cf913be691fdf
font_01_sfnt_off0000d20e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD20E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA20 17160 bytes
SHA-256: 1b016927a025b13e06f5be8796a8487bae5f4abca6d197d4848b9bfb58c505f3