Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aaa9e13624fd2ed0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:53:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: d0fc8ff7b57ddc4de550c56daaf905fc SHA-1: 2812058a4d30e932abcdcf6171da791f81a6e16b SHA-256: aaa9e13624fd2ed014bdc921740d646f29a0673763061c805cc619338ebe66fc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations and other disposable hosting sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and its nature as a lure suggest potential for embedded JavaScript to facilitate redirection or further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://amatnieks.lv/pictures/image/dabosi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pharma-tools.eu/galeria/file/30529007888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lfhk4jghhbsdo54m1pg75lrgm1/lolasumafujonavinaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e88dbc8a298eb4ab44d97569ab1b57d/zowonewofon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.de/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/6646351331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wtmongolia.com/materials/file/vutotubumonibirurerabaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kccpsuddhao0umsmi15f7dd055/modobimokovadukavabatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8d21e7562db1071a4aff81c8ca35145/dorozejonobomuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idevicesplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/bapodafojilegadurifavil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fetogram.com/images/upload/files/savetajuzipetavexip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8cb1255affad5e78cf9b2c97dce3577/16700991446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://falconshipping-uae.com/userfiles/files/dojasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/693664db92197c24df90032b163d6645/pumigaberifikajorafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/918db332a9553dbbe84f4e0b6be75238/23135324447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcucaytrong.com/images/files/24240063755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dajuicebarus.com/uploads/files/nitewab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0bb30a9ee06bcf5720dac289ae1e391/vevebivini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidtrading.com/public_html/userfiles/file/ronibug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7732c3998e---rivapesewuxetuligovitofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99bc4bf115c39473242a3556fc3854b1/71131402360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.info/contents//files/bavibagilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/955a60cd762b2c5751f051ccd0119ad9/31939519248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozkayalarlojistik.com/userfiles/file/90089814131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f76024a86c2---sezokoxibikodago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newo.ru/files/files/josurajovewusuziwelaluka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=the+great+sea+serpentPDF 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_off0000f727.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF727 18032 bytes
SHA-256: 24db02d7954421768c857de8e8adc9a14799128eb9d6443a566e05999e330824
font_01_sfnt_off000125bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125BF 10236 bytes
SHA-256: 4345e1456f4e29191b66028f3a571c04db7399a00fd518a4d9b37f2bbabaa397
font_02_sfnt_off00013cb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1