Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0aa91ac2ae24ea6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 14:54:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: fa31eef3e74dd16659b1d04e1ca914e0 SHA-1: bc692b442a8d490b9ab7d902df3829605a3537cf SHA-256: b0aa91ac2ae24ea6c1c61fc8b0170d706e68335881fdbaaf3a2f6bf401201ad8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to potentially malicious content hosted on these compromised domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9933

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://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37f2c6d192de1efbe409a0907e5ae588/29507712811.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://9275522-travel.com/userfiles/file/pidezowopaxajovimazome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://choinka4x4.org/cms/files/file/zudosawiguzinikokimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beytarimcilik.com/admin/editor_resim/file/28468651240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternatifmedikal.com/img/userfiles/files/nujebax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sona3elkhair.com/userfiles/file/fidujof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/befd14e4167d97be9176f74aeab9e85e/89094578749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.id/userfiles/file/sufaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f51ed4727b---7265736418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b069c064a7c---61595316147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mahae.hu/files/files/42900495016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macauroommate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69855495567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/43815124171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yizhu580.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52836218418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/92827979995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://at2apigroup3.com/contents/files/88336390591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k8p7qkh2983mp4bct66997c2ta/80004424709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d37a8acd761cea1465ec4b02c86ba9e0/14792805933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/734a4944e4f75bc9b4ac98f9a09a6c94/kizoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7662061d7---53761856443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607018ceb9e14---zobezajotifokivedowafixez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb7aaf6d549---9451469182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chemtron-vostok.ru/media/file/towonofawedokolefej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607deca56e5d0---98620386112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aptitudeclass.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zawolafezixir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=noun+printable+worksheets+2nd+gradePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000df42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF42 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f759.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF759 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 3cae46cf8282032022e5172e30101fe0994a707b5c059c90457a211b5a773ea5
font_02_sfnt_off00011123.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11123 17192 bytes
SHA-256: 736bad5b1f990d62aed4ecf6620ce51020afb900679dca4ee8c145c7c85029fb
font_03_sfnt_off00012a46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A46 17600 bytes
SHA-256: 4646505d98756cee7f0852c6df15a639b20d517f32c1c64a6039ba311742871e