Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa9068f403eca4c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-07-02 09:27:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: c4ff6752ca07d8f164c674c5866bcf56 SHA-1: 2885377b43a93f2540c9bd920d1be8d37be2840a SHA-256: aa9068f403eca4c1273a8596e2f02ce35febf33f2175a2d80ca27b7bdb1629ff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to multiple PDF files hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The presence of numerous links to potentially malicious PDFs suggests an attempt to distribute further malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42699256bffbf4fc08173164b0dc8a0d/tivix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://capital96.com/userfiles/file/zekevenorolesumelulumevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb5089d8e2---rowoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobryremont.pl/ebobas/portal/app/webroot/img/tmp/file/16206178980084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodatnagarancija.com/userfiles/file/42373655284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiemtoanhaiphong.vn/upload/files/87209414656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speeddating.lt/speeddating/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sebifejezapixupilizaxumam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b49c1f0d7acfda634adbeccd0e52db8c/budug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e46a4a2e4---nukalosubadamunilegem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8b5311c55---nafomofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ae0fd77e0---kadizanuduxeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddb8b3be868---sumofofuputobuguwefaxuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d62fea779202a144111a1f5a54f6cdf/vabururitanof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608858c0bf743---wowuwatadejovotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4883566812b5a2ef670b2b2ba524d6ca/simaguzesonesox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butchercurnow.com/img/shop//contents/45662380749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncostruzioni.com/userfiles/file/31451650475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extracam.es/app/webroot/arxius/file/24867022934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/11244825374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/56950210707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzeumkonstancina.pl/attachments/file/43962094389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extracam.es/app/webroot/arxius/file/78235515086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862c66dc470---3275342452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixturkey.com/upload/ckfinder/files/sakivami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=for+better+or+worse+season+5PDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000fff5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFF5 17432 bytes
SHA-256: 7a10a344dfad75a106d99f9b41190bc49f4d10487335f538eeecfbe7604dcf6b
font_01_sfnt_off00012d3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D3A 10300 bytes
SHA-256: 8d7bf5e9695ff9597cea0f38e7a1e056f82f08d40e51edc34be5ae3961a75807
font_02_sfnt_off000144b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1