Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa97ac319ae96b7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 00:32:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 2701468399d07541770162aaca29ca93 SHA-1: fd7e02f8067fb48ea826891d63fe4a3763e07f68 SHA-256: aa97ac319ae96b7ac08d3feacfa031ff2338c41f2f6dd095a71e4bc08ed7ca49
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses an invoice-themed lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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 http://harryreichert.de/uploaded_pics/News/file/28484010178.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cdc0341452---69457665974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e99a02c4823f29130020fb4a082c000d/zemasuwonar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forspeed.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24359863521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-castiglioni.com/userfiles/files/jokotelasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a143d151311---vunuzoloziriwixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chatfieldfarms101.com/userimages/rukokadefogarinatirexeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.org/FCKeditor/file/36801026320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tjth4k0ga2c6i836sn0pgg7igu/mezogozagazotaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2d96845128defa9dfb1a7585a76ba1e/dimetotegoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/dosawuporiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icbacademy.com/upload/files/revamatujuduweminakubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/148fb22db12c9795ed9164e6898535ee/vikopuzaduxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocincorporated.com/domain.com/images/dynamic_pages/file/93029125345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1night2daytour.com/ckupload/files/45797239562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/64613528087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kriosispl.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77652607461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dps4cpedoutkdelpsm07pm9im6/xazuzemovubivijuwizeropu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8be2a83a8e7c78e92f638c619fefdbf1/86758959994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--p3t29jo1ed4o4xw.tw/upload/files/23656940764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3crf0d0snubjjc38arg3tl6ldd/53124348956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b4ae0d8508b963a53d67b717d3ae956/69079005709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/vagitogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085f86cae581---gesaxugekede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tchid.net/userfiles/file/58238811608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=tally+shortcut+keys+pdf+filePDF 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_off0000d311.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD311 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 02e9cc2d94c423aec68c33b919994dd70b4e3fa03821746a894f318031018e65
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC72 17116 bytes
SHA-256: 64cefbf21fa0830cb3c0f1c5bd13ecaab9bf51dd584d1151580022142ae05404
font_02_sfnt_off00011918.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11918 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1