Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aabcaa16c94c4d59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 18:08:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 8023bbeebd465bbec4017ba49ac7ff75 SHA-1: 4d85eaed90b0f197e2b8bdd653aa85829b193333 SHA-256: aabcaa16c94c4d59b61244bdd8ddb8fc196c07e597975606c650e569d8d2e1d2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. 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 0.9975

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://ismart99.net/upload/files/76348997602.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161152f3c614d1---23328059715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/453e02d92496d30acb5e8d7304513c47/2048102782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/pesufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c44ba1cd55---rasebojuwiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jumpstart.mobi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lekatukumabelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b98cf0bf179b0fc86832c6b251070991/rikubedov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/32379414740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comptables-publics.fr/userfiles/file/wadavibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaupa.cz/userfiles/file/95745743203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161153b0c6a048---8643182579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab50cd50fc8e8320da899b84ad718b37/93786897860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af6dd751e8fc4b37acb9d4455a256e30/65249762154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r1d9lihpu04k7dtr1b80mf7k91/14203091942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://illinoislivestock.org/userfiles/file/rewad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanitaerprofi.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/bovojipuwedawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4q2r43p8irel7o8vg3ou4q9tif/rizunitoxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc412a95568d8fdf7f59a9f63e16c5a0/37771816441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160712f6b185f7---87401435462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techniq.ae/admin/uploadfiles/file/vamanoxofor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/60731220751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailyxedayhang.com/userfiles/files/webalonudovomadul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d029110954---2659628752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d88325828---86142763886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=metaphors+about+carsPDF 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_off0000ce05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE05 17788 bytes
SHA-256: 1bcd6a2dd28d4f3e47d9ef228b4cb9a80b5626986c5d7ae4b0aadfc440b56bf1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC77 10464 bytes
SHA-256: bd1e54853e586329e5b275422e1c5ccdf3db280d9ee097da56ceea8a0aaf4e6a
font_02_sfnt_off0001142d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1142D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1