Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aabc702790211b26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-10 19:56:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9e2ba98565cb9e6b905be94dcccb47ad SHA-1: 0a1f99036488c95eae3f757957e6f5e54aecc898 SHA-256: aabc702790211b26b737838289083dd6e5a8d84cbfd17baa7c8f586a581a73a1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external URLs, several of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or phish users. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs indicates a potential phishing or tracking campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=imessage+chat+apk
    • http://soles2walk.com/data/file/ninetojazifim.pdf
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/xubijexiwev.pdf
    • http://skontrolsengineering.com/file_media/file_image/file/43783746863.pdf
    • http://tverzhilservis.ru/foktver.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/miterebexafimofuzojosekun.pdf
    • http://candientushinko.com/images/file/24457770212.pdf
    • https://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/gowegavafisesumu.pdf
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130dff92c7e7---30425237654.pdf
    • http://protetyka-lublin.com/images/wyswig_images/file/tuvaveko.pdf
    • https://stl-log.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/98627244747.pdf
    • https://hygradeinsulators.com/images/uploads/file/76548187344.pdf
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ak27r9p1s3qtt6ismsqh0j82qi/valapizabazugezudajufavur.pdf
    • http://moskvaznaet.ru/upload/files/xixerobowe.pdf
    • http://bodemveenweiden.nl/bodem-veenweiden-img/kudiwekikeligupupovaw.pdf
    • http://chuaphucluong.com/uploads/image/files/tovivevotimube.pdf
    • https://www.gurgy.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71215641187.pdf
    • http://dalnoboy.org/data/filestorage/upload/files/77732523996.pdf
    • https://premiersuli.hu/files/files/suziwolomurufijisi.pdf
    • https://hoangnhataudio.vn/media/files/ripenutitarabogufowadu.pdf
    • http://zjqzzx.com/uploadfile/file/2021090816251973499.pdf
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/83373357184.pdf
    • http://anm-av.de/uploads/files/67815123590.pdf
    • http://yanartextil.com/firma/files/74333834728.pdf
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161321f192208a---varinawuliv.pdf
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec89f98759---rubixapot.pdf
    • http://matsusushionline.com/uploads/files/47455276803.pdf
    • http://oiseau-bleu-morzine.com/userfiles/file/fowetijiriterasuji.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d8a2.bin
540ebbd104aee13490cbcc1a5c21e2a2690f001659910cd183358193c39ffe42
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8A2 10400 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f03e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF03E 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010850.bin
e70771f8550cec31b5c6fd55760b735a754358ed173d392a21432fb633156961
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10850 17452 bytes