Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 daaaa03c47da52f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 19:58:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 04cacbf3f093df5d5d56ddc555c4a30a SHA-1: 1c1e263d692ffb2319834d35855abc4b4c6110ab SHA-256: daaaa03c47da52f681837bdb7c3be0c7452972dcc1892e29c97038bd35e0cfe2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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=online+advertisement+management+system+project+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://faizleathergloves.com/userfiles/files/dufiluliwozizujosegilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a19df0cb55d---wirukari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611904ebe8b44---15009755273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fda76d5d77ccbd3ee4706804ad81bf2/vuvuxasoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanurichurch.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11391807952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f55a35cccce---82098674326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abbe3bb362dcb4f2cc88ef97880c09fa/27901712071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099667f50f0d---67711830280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lienming-rubber.com/uploads/files/202108190019186841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf8d0fc56d8---57695439662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a37043faf7202d151073b21a4b3cb3ea/47301873114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a361dcc44d96f8599bc631f505f3f70/lupefokibiwejedekiwuxami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loaamtran.com/files/usersfiles/files/vimik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miskolciharsona.hu/pictures/file/viwowida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/59709764446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminencesolutions.in/resources/userfiles/file/26378582725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e3ce77fcc---bunulajirapejofelojativi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speeddating.lt/speeddating/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66027116846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d95b409e512345708f50e0eacd42ec0e/8373248216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a5f768a4be---zimopanodakobizupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aatmicscience.org/asuserfiles/file/sasituzoxijamexunemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4tecgvhhndili9ugtp1m5clegk/50911255314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbb08c70c9e8ea9e301012e26da0030f/gipepugemedarakuv.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_off0000d571.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD571 11296 bytes
SHA-256: 3b86529616d7e7d0f2991ff5f13f54858812a72635ede8d1deb43f758851a305
font_01_sfnt_off0000efcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFCC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000107de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107DE 17416 bytes
SHA-256: d71acf47a57db4fa269737e0149be62c6af1bf6022e071b6784805e5bb88b92d

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