Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aff1c063f736caa6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-06-25 17:44:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4e184f1870adb616e463080f47c52219 SHA-1: db9b838ce89e578c07789923391a5a6ed220f391 SHA-256: aff1c063f736caa686f4526c30b1fa4e98673844163a3a1f040b5f7c23cabf09
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final destination and evade detection. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/vegasoro.pdf
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb22a922ce18590b5876e21d514fdbd9/63695411555.pdf
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f037b8cd67---daduzovukofaxur.pdf
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j402ntctqtqlpj5lt25h8u4i17/xijuxaginubiwopisaf.pdf
    • http://r2doodles.com/clients/4/4a/4a4ed909dcef54c1e3ec6a0ce1d29f2d/File/5890711927.pdf
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43438362994deeca48635745835e1af9/parudokuporawuvudub.pdf
    • http://jhdjt.com/images/upload/File/sezadexonizilada.pdf
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/lolupirim.pdf
    • https://psychologgia.pl/Upload/file/pulefolapibizevutixova.pdf
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c69f64728b8---92193724857.pdf
    • http://re-view.online/fckFiles/file/sixinivone.pdf
    • https://kueapem.com/contents//files/39659064678.pdf
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0caa81ab9e3d177e37bb495928e10ff/silesux.pdf
    • https://vieclamxaydung24h.com/upload/files/8620741942.pdf
    • http://drairtools.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64364336323.pdf
    • https://classconnbio.com/img-jacson/files/74878276209.pdf
    • https://autoteam.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93695103.pdf
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d95813d9e---35403017526.pdf
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087315603c5c---84317961435.pdf
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/69463750653.pdf
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6998212bc3edbb3b131bfca998836007/10269452673.pdf
    • https://panificiopasticceriabattaglia.it/file/mijotanajepividet.pdf
    • http://boothbayharborshipyard.com/userfiles/file/razorolisuzuva.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=good+morning+handsome+in+spanish
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f1e2.bin
5f5517093b42aaeff4a47c69daa0b043fa034c9adc93db5611fd12f195a2e7b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1E2 16728 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011cbe.bin
c53352f8bfba0a93cea4827c8edea8c7788288951c4cd4b648ba78bdd519bfa6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CBE 10732 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000134f8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134F8 16792 bytes