Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aadcaa24c64ed06a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

120.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 09:30:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 1b48912ebf97627cd56d9c6c9a6ccc91 SHA-1: 3c6139d16d6cda10074f6003182d8f943c4a0b21 SHA-256: aadcaa24c64ed06a2b7c50bc668f5075697acbd82c9a465ee8380990f8f16fd3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this PDF, classifying it as a phishing or trojan threat.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://irths.com/upload_files/files/tamojijibadisanodegive.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.beautyvogue.ch/Files/file/81644958392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608be03052e0e---tunitukesezimidafiniwore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///bepipori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ee4d8aa48---manotudomug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b48c1063dd1---jikefuvolaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baobihungphu.com/media/ftp/file/vasoxelobabijowiruximo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newcastlehigh1967-50threunion.com/clients/43248/File/49151227567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daydreamspin.com/userfiles/file/lufadepaban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc5a0bd5c2---korisemedum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f204b9eff7---58848047865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cncforginghammer.com/d/files/teziloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092a72ba3190---30143031602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichigroup.net/uploads/news_file/24696061024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalkucharski.pl/app/webroot/media/files/40243612810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gbs241817o2ovifus46j2f6gj6/veganesojotexudil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.net/userfiles/file/18996377023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bustotoronto.com/userfiles/file/66695292234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/fomupav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f60c62e697e---13380854965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuanai.com/userfiles/file/89923935720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4960426d61---29050189390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16091f32504475---73164893929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brooklinehs1964.com/clients/6/6a/6a3559cec3eb17f551da2d864c8c85ab/File/49818396056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=shout+out+to+my+ex+lyricsPDF 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_off00017127.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17127 18772 bytes
SHA-256: 40e9c5a900da7981aff49bb760f98f1f4e06046b56f24783226222479bc13ec5
font_01_sfnt_off0001a1c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A1C2 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 1d07396816b3a0748f15b7c352c6563fb692099086ab7855e1ee089373a0b880
font_02_sfnt_off0001ba12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BA12 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1