Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aabf09f7aab26bf4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.3 KB Created: 2021-07-04 22:10:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a613fb3cad6f132dc380f7f60346cca9 SHA-1: 34f0b53bd41330d249b5bfa4361feb78f4ff59d4 SHA-256: aabf09f7aab26bf4726352ab88643229493d07be91c4b727adb07efbb8287045
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to host malicious files or redirect users to phishing pages. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URLs point to a common pattern of using compromised infrastructure for malicious hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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://sjalikave.hu/pictures/file/luzobab.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc147cdad1a03ee5f6f5f32c70e8b064/tadebiwapulezab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a06e0aac5---vagezapinebodalilubevapum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f601a56d6671d9febe3d209c4fddd7e/zebudutul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbwingslynnhaven.com/uploads/files/21310073748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportsgarten.com/editorData/file/28422562839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d9759272ea---81405585721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hizlipin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/lutitowunadimitiwozunuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i6vl0noc559k0k4bsaate3ppk1/28642759463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/22701145322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090033e1acb7---64414706181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59625b74c98c9c8f3315d56663dbd0ef/rakerubap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2850f3833171baa35c1d722a82d3ce55/dedikifuforegama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinegypt.net/userfiles/file/raxiberadatun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pbdec308s9iua2u6ud96srhb91/bifat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160d6a947a7471---ledusajuwugom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a28ef05066e---rusipamametopafuluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/asoan3c7kb2s01uimkdk88cil7/surusisedoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1tqb5268aovkjkki7k0f0cqeh/12104007924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muguet.fr/sites/default/files/file/13065534296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kodjodr4gn6uquh99l0okcl9gp/93289282327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4aef12917319df064b852d3aa1cf5629/70415369710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/66154954605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fkqonu8ga7862pn007h0kti2uh/bonukafarotisuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ae408c0be5---13926257868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/177t0paffv604h6vb4cc9k0efv/zakagaguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b2c31c749---45376957110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=best+small+colleges+for+pre+medPDF 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_off0001152c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1152C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012d43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D43 10820 bytes
SHA-256: c51c61fa8b8e29fe5ccd9bc45c437cdb02ecde2660acf2bae710b4cb9339566c
font_02_sfnt_off00014615.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14615 16804 bytes
SHA-256: f97097f80a8cd6984bafe167614e183a143419f31d6d0b8c5d992d1761c7ede8