Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aaf4acddd621996e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-15 14:14:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e93eeefbc64407981f9df7b91d0c4477 SHA-1: 0c2b983c629cfd9a00e2bf72c121ff09c4d2d71c SHA-256: aaf4acddd621996e6d19042fce2a4d80e630690d56d17470b1ac45677aaae7ee
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous links to external PDF files, many hosted on compromised websites. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and the ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document likely serves as a lure to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tasleem+mustafa+books+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://needychild.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vikepofugupumajikuzutomab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondatayho.vn/images/ckeditor/files/kokobekajirowegopepopunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kocavietnam.com/upload/files/pamemexulegexigababusal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613aa08e1ab35---beporokukivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trickapotisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79912497249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcaps99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kujexuligibusorululova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recepti.plovdivweek.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90855870591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/files/269287236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitree.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63463863083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winterwonderlandzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/sepizoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giasuthienphuc.com/Images_upload/files/54347827891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sro52.ru/uploads/files/ririmuxepifamegizibav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khachsan295doson.vn/namthuan/images/news/files/maxenal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/posanekikidorejizerubiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanmemerp.vn/attachment/files/zusojudanot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saikekanglun.com/filespath/files/20210912031444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7dabd6c82f8f4e31b1219e1a3de9c1f/36467262890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanzmendia.com/userfiles/files/97395528820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cc806c1382---71675600892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giaiphapthietke.vn/media/file/files/netalupitulubalewudevoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614149880efd7---fuxubasewixanikeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aan.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xewuzewimovuladosaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestapp4u.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file/xukanedogobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d311.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD311 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 586f13909f2ac13d518fdc205233c18cd9bf0a7820aee86345af68c246fd2005
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC52 18480 bytes
SHA-256: 863ed5d66d0008a7e6d1026ec07d3a4387f7846692240782df98e6b8d7bccd91
font_02_sfnt_off00011bc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BC0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1