Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa8b9b5ee60ce86e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 01:05:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 3891739ee65dd7a40b3e88ac886ea82f SHA-1: fbb75b167a61bb9828c633f4ad98a5e545c8e7b3 SHA-256: aa8b9b5ee60ce86e3c83b7dc71721e79bd417eeb44d365a109bc168097df3b2e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or downloads. The presence of multiple external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=libros+sobre+trastorno+de+deficit+de+atencion+con+hiperactividad+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://home-delighted.com/user_img/files/bogusidozowok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f27e6b8d529---lemexena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77539a1eb94f6e9a1306fda424c14c96/finapodavuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1611109a62c8aa---92079539043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pegasomeeting.medcoast.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36738192583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bf2912e098---nakawesibeguwixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f9009a391---wapufonodofubigedakoxegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/9992253560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.net/images/blog//file/lanoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f418abad7a---vexojoxuwizovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/pavokisedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c75d5c600f---8513653094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohsclassof73.com/clients/9/9a/9a21b0b253f7c4eafe662346d237c286/File/kejeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.li/upload/vetopase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vlgphr1g4aotmr43gma5fmair2/jifoxetokof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1c0cd84734---72120749056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f39fde13e0---povejonuzasuxorowamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aybar-gallery.com/userfiles/files/43654797525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elm3rad.comfile/bigitowar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124c6417b0e9---mugegipanizolav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afslab.asia/upload/files/29820187044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/gavotifosazam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b80cbe6a34d---54904081140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satakantaresort.com/user_img/files/fiperagajexiwatuvofokumub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/94102789436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb8db59a7d7---vedivozide.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_off0000edec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDEC 18924 bytes
SHA-256: 2c2cb0cc0b55b39a5d9229e5ecf0cc5c732be91151bdcee59cb9928fc42dbe97
font_01_sfnt_off00011dc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DC6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000135dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135DD 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 61268e16895c16bd97c7dd4bdaf429d2f00e069cbd8b5d4b4a080aab52a1a9ef

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