Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aba0aef58ee068b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-06-25 18:25:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 634c3665d3aa7523e575e6f178b91bf3 SHA-1: 45aca6d426550b796e337e7388ab72386c84da26 SHA-256: aba0aef58ee068b3f78bba2caff7e14391bc99ba213af2e010ed4ed91c8fb6a6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mb1ac6dqfv7fsuu6ossnd9g1ih/16448831379.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/21836602365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096a488937ed---37411201726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5e5791e17f---87325348040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2eed51e1a6470dca33011efc67aaa1a2/zebururebumegevarebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097c1ffa50dd---981943689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fanaf.comarticle_ressources/file/rukinumajivaliri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf7ec70e495---lupozelurutexabiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160814cd01eccf---fosezoxawenodasovun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b13a1018492---64217901912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3he0pq652lsu21ii86rki7ulis/forewevasami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/noxegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086bc4349b39---58842505933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a4716583961caea7048b6cf9c4af7a6/zebulijajetemunedulajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf7ae718ab---23590216939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5356a25d6c---jazojurutibefinadexuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/28936716625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607218928f462---50720472808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-31/20210531033145280018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae45c525a68---lalumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=drinking+milk+in+empty+stomach+is+good+or+badPDF 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_off0000fbbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBBE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000113d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113D5 11308 bytes
SHA-256: f746d45461935f17a8bfdf3e71d77c7f5d2a5141778b67ca6417c3e3ed335bec
font_02_sfnt_off00012dca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DCA 18232 bytes
SHA-256: 6be1979669a8478d27e5219e96ca0155e8981fc5fc74e5a85863af99bbe94fef