Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aff6a2741d79901b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

145.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 09:37:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6aa04d65b1ac2f0ba0ab0adabacf8c30 SHA-1: 24cc64d8902281cb51ac65e1bd6fabd3df63c46e SHA-256: aff6a2741d79901b34710c191388a3709f584dbe8b74e2df4da59d1f3ec48cf7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations and disposable hosting sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ratio+and+proportion+in+business+mathematics PDF link annotation
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1721925bc6---vebobus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99e79c2cd8fc690b12aa2bc4b995267e/dokawub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e35e12d1454217f1d7f7b0b72df3142/zaxeferasuvovusexebedivos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f98055e8ea1f57c3557405c1abda3e34/mutoguzogunusatawopurufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wickedcheesy.com/images/file/24721317419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/41195956020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xanbiente.de/userfiles/file/42787488903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voijin.com/userfiles/files/13760983015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wowbond.com/upload/Fckeditor/file/sodumogivibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/22495748164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608497d1ae645---81740545008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08dcb15c6d8b587e00645d79249c8a87/55047582749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umartravel.com/files/63070753695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79117990d5d2d52b21f2e75e10f12387/76471981417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0841078cb9---21849476704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gertiesbloomers.com/kousumi/nulook/upload/fckimages/file/90239768562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0a1519a9d2---lenes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flomojapan.com/upload/files/98836200105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rmetp80rkkg041f7nf64i2bl68/vudiwuguwuxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9f8bdac242---sowixigaboju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duetsepolno.pl/userfiles/file/fufak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d629906b8e---xederonugelepawaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c792f20b6b5---tizafomusuvonokug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ce36e728894c2878408f166f58047ca/48396689454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160785c3e5271c---loliruxiwopixigiwe.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_off0001d01d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D01D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001e82f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E82F 20432 bytes
SHA-256: 7148dfd45ebfbf01f519f14527b6b98f8634fd7f8c0aee56779473fb39213824
font_02_sfnt_off00021e52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21E52 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 80ccc33eab2a410b9611686f34834330a631aeb055f1069efd8dcde6a58ba5fa

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