Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aaaae63276b0e9f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-08-08 15:49:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 6d8a85c3439139ca14197ce921c274dd SHA-1: 1a93ccdbd06197fddd81a6a383e0453d465e8024 SHA-256: aaaae63276b0e9f56cbc73840bf01ec6d8a2ef2e2ed2a8bac65872f1ecf4d69a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate that the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=do+all+medical+terms+have+prefixes+and+suffixes PDF link annotation
    • http://m2mus.ca/clients/b/b1/b1ca46fdb12d68e762e4a8b3318caec0/File/bezasupurokorurafes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c6c3191d11---84777854852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmdfhjl.com/fckeditor/userimages/file/dafajimilixilumetar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dc305e0740285820a514a0a2f34ba9d/84922540679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.com/images/blog//file/butusezuwoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799c89e5523---sijixatuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/889138aa7e66347cf8f6173751b003af/desutojoraxalaxobifog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7afca7d0054b7013a3e5b846a11a8853/palerajarikoliriku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jikaramen.com/uploads/files/fekepobimopojezolas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0632f944d1---buboto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://girisimcilikproje.com/resimler/files/35144288736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ltjpf8pue6feo436s73jaav2h0/durofojebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842f8674432---korokesunelupekuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arkystudio.eu/userfiles/files/16294324979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnysft.com/d/files/27292299997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c05255f57---botapaboxokixolugez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/592dca75e482342ae4d240996521a2bb/firumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9fc54021a4---xodorivogusunipeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.knickmeier.net/images/pageimg/file/20805503061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3nt8s23f8u505qburno7tjath1/45910509724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibb-online.ru/f/file/menuwiwokixujabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c44a9e275c0---39792260990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mottaing.eu/userfiles/files/91655426819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iujf1jh3mi7irc39geqj66jka7/25970385621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099b14f82386---70564245270.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_off0000f516.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF516 17360 bytes
SHA-256: 2eba06b4a2ba1003a0ef88c3a8335ce3ffa58bda259d8f7b144ce777f2d67574
font_01_sfnt_off0001226a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1226A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013a81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A81 11152 bytes
SHA-256: e5a7981aa422203ee320dbad403dd6a5e35530c4b7d79c483ccca0c6c52aee0e