Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa8f56c394a4f6a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-15 23:43:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ee8236a55963dccff3c1ade4320b3b5c SHA-1: 683f5ed7e8140bc6ef2327a2684ab93a73a19fd1 SHA-256: aa8f56c394a4f6a9b42f15a5a5bdc41abfd510d4f52dee08da0953b6e557c155
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed for SEO poisoning or phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of a QR code lure heuristic further supports a phishing or redirection attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=twitter+apk+for+iphone PDF link annotation
    • http://my-hustle.net/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/54082258825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--939a66v0zjo3bcvdmrp.com/data/ckfinder/files/41419463840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congchung7.com/upload/file/jekavumewutujanabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbc9d25c4e2220fed302c43d8df4bb60/lepozidabuvigunus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bccphil.paramedix.biz/uploadfiles/file/zajati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amicissiapiemonteisa.it/userfiles/files/pivuwofelifasokifibor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.hk/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_AC8A1C3B059A81E9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterfori.ir/basefile/charterforiir/files/purigevageveguxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f8b72e9d4c---46902934606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://web5gstore.com/Files/files/pifuxinemoxajet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2446665a.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuzagise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161330d254eb6e---13973241218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0737b61f67145dbb445a747a7b2b291/33391073877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/43077968596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1foc91og9oitrt0efsiq317hko/mabezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happy-land.hu/editor_up/joxuloratajililag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f7914dcfc2---12311568411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salman-group.com/userfiles/file/88766311484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/wapopubisozofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szamitogep-szerviz-javitas.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gesekovudupidizapazalebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioimercedes.com/upload/files/mulamefude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acrgroup.nl/userfiles/file/lamup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appartementslisa.it/an3_Uploads/file/83345959752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandipkumardutta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47699803332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efnnma.org/files/file/pupaj.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_off0000dc1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC1B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f42d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF42D 17736 bytes
SHA-256: c50331777efd8fd62f275cc29795c5c0d726369da6ccf987679635a0e79cc17f
font_02_sfnt_off00012226.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12226 10380 bytes
SHA-256: ee5f818993878a63907fd9ad2928897e059d58af24ae0df68f80ac40b26e58af