Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aaed06ec2ed01698…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 08:22:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5634b502f8447b9e260f57bf3999fc5a SHA-1: 642768233bcf1749401f17634f967a633128f537 SHA-256: aaed06ec2ed016989ae658bbd18cdf4f316de5c23ec5ed7bfabeffdf9b4a0c24
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this phishing-related attack pattern. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e5be8499aa---nuwoboxofujawubewalos.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b13eaca00d8---3764237980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thinkglobalcompliance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuratoxixijopusoboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf5decc5167---9915834560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niezapominajkowo.eu/userfiles/file/remubozolaxitunimof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b5c3157da3---tulupenozolanugojazapok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7o1vsj8t2jj4ssaaaop6evmn5/mupuwibimodazazodabokut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happypalettebnb.com/CKEdit/upload/files/getipizulojafibetisutofon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6f74ac6585---jakokakoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/favimerinozabilosof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koffiewarenhuis.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/37717657853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b486acd1d47---96969956605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/runeziwovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puzynowska-kancelaria.com/userfiles/file/43235693213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/2021623114188680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/663e5e6f343357293887ec1f741673aa/54709135831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4988e795b2---51426947715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d628052eef7134b2a1613873ae3fc81/vomawip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca8stoj1vrsnddg4u0fpvcai07/koxebomexewok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlspublishing.in/data/eimages/file/69286440668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/33164651202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/vusosites.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jongauger.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bexofidudiluroxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/855ff30a35efacb849f66b3b39e7edf6/13607615204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/78818474935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=mineral+spirits+to+clean+woodPDF 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_off0000eccc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECCC 10588 bytes
SHA-256: ddf867f55addeefd4c5d65a552f4b41a3e6c37146842f74f5ba492aa28388fd4
font_01_sfnt_off00010522.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10522 19632 bytes
SHA-256: c5a893f4122f51a960dedfb1722f8aaf3b71c3f36151e072aef664e135fcddd7
font_02_sfnt_off000136cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1