Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aff3a7b09fccec7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 02:49:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 13463ec08388acd5ddf59afe1738c3e4 SHA-1: 20bc0658eba845a93cff7f8d1d55644c54c974fd SHA-256: aff3a7b09fccec7d8db95f6a4653af0a0ef0dbf0350cf03e33e69a15346f398e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using disposable hosting for link farms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=half+girlfriend+novel+malayalam+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfacde456e6d5faea723cd331965f68f/45751574104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfa90d36d2b84c464acdb754018ff908/deferofadevozerugaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c34dea3836c5be57f0b10c90a641742a/17538172189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160727097a5c1d---mijik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9310fd36f03df6e3b3141c6857921b07/mexixixagimada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b42jl5egojqivbp09bhmviic15/tulazogekilisaxojepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e29d3850cb9652e1b19f0058c195abc/84441708272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-1/20210701200811765464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qdsenfeng.com/data/files/vurofodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qbcar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89935364495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1ff9565891---87746874508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d9774cd0afa74d1c20e6722fe2bcaf0/lamijenoketufad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geologocarmignani.com/userfiles/files/selezox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weyergans-hcc.lv/userfiles/file/bofufolupesijabuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/saxemeretoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88328efbad85ea1cb65dd0b34036be00/kemukoraboponibajanos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2mus.pro/clients/b/b1/b1ca46fdb12d68e762e4a8b3318caec0/File/rabutetuwakale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntc-container.com/upload/files/mosonex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/skicvon38ejjtdot6ctk44asn0/55963226293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perilatomsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16783162877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobardinisrl.com/userfiles/files/66155980377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607212ba29280---dotopisinuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612194bc67a5c---tititexonezixigidudux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5ba4fb25c0---71434134705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/geduwo.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_off0000d6bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6BB 17800 bytes
SHA-256: 94819e85f856ce93f366997d578bc0b0e7ffe7e17fda6cd8171ba71edb998da2
font_01_sfnt_off000104b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104B2 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 8712cd6e530c360b34fe5504beba0017ba55a5098efdfdd84013af3dc2d06e97
font_02_sfnt_off00011d6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D6D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1