Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aafb035ccbde55a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 08:30:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 8396ddfaa0a7f7e9b3f1d35b7f075d19 SHA-1: 9c8612557245749e93e831b557016ece954c8db7 SHA-256: aafb035ccbde55a9b4ee0afdc28a36c1faddd8eec623b59db8d301d0063de3d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b69e872f5---pekaxuv.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c47e843d56a---97455710707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tippljrmperhqd9rj2jkq4dps3/16214486212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161239e3546fc0---daxuwizijapupimixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aadbf627d63---tawibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983db578a18---jonowivinajewonepej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eyela.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/90707943194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16295847547061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inventory-acepipe.com/images/uploads/files/16315253508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/srnscjrqghnis1r896oj9r627f/solunetularakajovijesuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/41462451288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1c29157e5---girujudakegezafoxutex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tnmkor.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210728_9808D992730FD1FD.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehlibeytalimleri.com/resimler/files/gutuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolorenzoni.eu/userfiles/files/bikipivida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipsgroupjjn.org/userfiles/file/wamuledef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodcomputers.ro/2664/uploads/fodamawabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovfab-menuiserie.com/userfiles/file/tituvin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hochrainer-elsner.at/upload/files/mozogafopunopuladow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatnhapkhaugiasi.com/luutru/files/bowamitidipelogatujelem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=mcdougal+littell+literature+grade+9+book+pdfPDF 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_off0000c513.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC513 17352 bytes
SHA-256: b2c72b18253421a3bcff7b94d5c0d70890b049966d513c5078346c581bc484ee
font_01_sfnt_off0000f22e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF22E 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 3e0312450d9a3afd4fdd981ab400163f4407c7a85f71948974abd4bf3e1daf1a
font_02_sfnt_off00010b93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B93 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1