Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aafe369990f2c1ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-09-22 16:03:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 547b1aa4d7eb92c1bd8bb898770a79a2 SHA-1: 1f4abb2712f3f11befa7c1d7526a6fa1d8513af8 SHA-256: aafe369990f2c1ca42d161889685052f995e4c3dc0889e74fbcb5c1288a759ec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' reinforces the phishing or malware distribution vector. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=win+7+lite+32 PDF link annotation
    • https://mimpisiluman.com/contents/files/rejitexuxatoforekatazex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b1b65137be---4171158487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141622771371---84195386296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://na3.it/misc/file/sifegakaxilol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensegun2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nupobudosivuwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03f04e06d3c303848d5ca3be61f42de3/15045919110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosme.org/uploadfile/files/61896456729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://073741256.com/uploads/files/202109202333095102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atputasbaze.lv/images/userfiles/files/56426362537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipsyclinic.com/userfiles/file/20210917192836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everintelconsulting.com/upload/file/202109140643506594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cherrychile.cl/cherry/uploads/contenido/files/61082689682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioassociatoemc.com/userfiles/files/nidomifasatom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/babopemav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidol.eu/userfiles/file/vetese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioagronomoserragiotto.eu/userfiles/files/74215994885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdkkck.com/uploadfile/file/20210918021029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://confidence-ist.mktechsol.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dilepub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e80a088a7---11506054537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://md-servicios.com/userfiles/file/rasejabuzaxeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thueotodn.com/uploads/image/files/38609848961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/22631035130.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_off0000b231.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB231 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA47 9884 bytes
SHA-256: 5337a1227d109766aa001e807566df266cfde9c22bf7cf97219510a3bef6e2ec
font_02_sfnt_off0000e03f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE03F 16092 bytes
SHA-256: a31d2db4538825924f839964ae572a45e245fe2296111c5d281f2c5fa3d4227f