Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aabdf6081cc7a0d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-10-19 00:34:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 6e8eecbdff411e554e0b495a478e525e SHA-1: 3619113175a6cdee2ae7e231abff0e939d0ec643 SHA-256: aabdf6081cc7a0d9585096fe0043b94395a535e833ce703aac6933d9bbafbdf9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple disposable domains and compromised CMS upload storage, a common tactic for phishing or distributing malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated content rather than user-facing text, further supporting a malicious purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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 http://dlzj.net/upload/files/20210913012537900992.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161384c3054159---bogenupejuvereti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altaitur.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95673808352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevisionkharj.com/userfiles/files/63830332331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.libroparlatolions.it/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15716995646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asesoriagade.com/app/webroot/files/files/63431370728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stickerbarcode.com/file_media/file_image/file/27719778656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etadelloro.it/images/file/tagakivetifene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorcefinance.nl/uploads/file/94253769872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thessalonikiflights.com/files/files/46101368470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjhywt.com/images/upload/File/41852791805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/vudowib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615adb34a3806---15550800198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syarmarka.ru/userfiles/files/foforibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saint-party.com/media/file/liwakuguwamosin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsklife.com/filespath/files/20210912155321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saga.diamonds/uploads/ckfinder/files/felut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sowlindia.com/userfiles/file/79960224322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://desirepara.fun4two.pl/uploads/assets/file/74163908529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1616567c4af7ce---sufetuxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12tiga.com/contents/files/zegekej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613437c5d636d---26849347625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irisapp.cn/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210920/file/16321483136985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prosefkuchare.cz/userfiles/tolajagamevotagumama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/766fb516cf10915be81ba69a09900b8b/gajavuwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursverwaltung.fit-n-essen.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bojabovigidadatibav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MbOu/~3/6Zflnl449io/uplcv?utm_term=exercice+sur+les+fraction+6eme+a+imprimerPDF 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_off0000d2e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2E9 18672 bytes
SHA-256: 7c0f4473034aa17c65b1af0a70b0122ec9dadf95b9f16ae1d147542355d48bf7
font_01_sfnt_off00010161.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10161 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 7d4d493276d10c139c24d5c0fb3b0769f0d7d0f8b1d8c5635fac00ad108dafd9
font_02_sfnt_off00011af8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AF8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1