Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aaac553d1ca571d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-21 09:00:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 081a8edacef2c1cc5b469f57cd8abfd7 SHA-1: 23e588b8249eca8b8ee2051752346c8d144066d3 SHA-256: aaac553d1ca571d4c4d05c814ebd54e61f71e999ce0e2d27d5b8438dbeb296cb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded JavaScript, although not directly executable in this context, suggests potential for further malicious actions if the user interacts with the links. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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=how+to+download+apps+into+sd+card PDF link annotation
    • http://pazzo.jp/js/upload/files/23375583835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.agro-zavod.ru/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4030057542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gernano.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/66024599904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtamdaykem.vn/Images_upload/files/94290174788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2acontractor.it/images/file/20632441524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b62c4721f4---dujejum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmtshipping.com/attachment/file/negad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ba2822e176b2e2b70b6863d967c3b27/89322778158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasteofruraleurope.eu/upload/File/82092218662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terralis.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/75088454611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmvt.cz/sites/default/files/davowelad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.videobezopasnost.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tavug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eksternest.be/images/file/34651189144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motopujcovnateplice.cz/userfiles/file/20025973055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amthanhanhsangchinhhang.vn/upload/files/bavodarevis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiangzhuan.tw/upload/files/jumomavatofagifumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvutot99.com/webroot/img/files/88056630892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peltonfell.org.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52464181680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jan-fotografie.nl/upload/files/48757095391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiachuankeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-19/20210919013833951986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j6mgn4epim5pquh02ifrrnmpd7/58027540425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonhoirup.dk/userfiles/file/giwepobojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dean-cpa.com/files/adminpic/file/logiwike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fba238cf318ce9b2bc532c6125ed200/68346442602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sowa-architekci.pl/userfiles/files/85183206551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pekbdt.com/filespath/files/20210901062706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135518d1aee5---xiriwisonukakinasikejuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3uesksupbpne1ltbtr71b1cm00/vogoluluna.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_off0000d9da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9DA 16944 bytes
SHA-256: 6a5d9da17e53bdf3c79d50fd65ab2ecd43a2088835ae811a03402da6042c6856
font_01_sfnt_off00010656.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10656 10452 bytes
SHA-256: d8f2d91b1ea0be833e24989b2648b3b5306249539333830e198cf2b76834e840
font_02_sfnt_off00011e2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1