Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ae28a95cf0f6425…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 04:24:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5d12334b9315e081fb00eba73b593d98 SHA-1: 365ffa0ca093cea651b39fe8851278266d3a5661 SHA-256: 0ae28a95cf0f6425fcbc0ef62e9b8ae94300740e8e07ee5807d77e332a192312
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, likely to lure users into downloading further malware or submitting sensitive information. The PDF structure itself is indicative of a link farm, designed to obscure the malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=in+a+free+market+economy+a+product+that+entails+a+negative+externality+will+be
    • http://trungnguyenjsc.vn/uploads/image/files/tawipizalerogivukus.pdf
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58r5ird444iisdvnousulu3s6n/99753113360.pdf
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f692fbc6af3e38cd5947c07891883f6/veseduvalasaga.pdf
    • https://faceless.me/userfiles/files/27939549584.pdf
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bnql78srcmt5p1vq8eormljrd0/nedatesafosoxevi.pdf
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09tn43pirenk3ljsoioafcb0rg/kutaniwozilaba.pdf
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087906ac8126---mavuzugi.pdf
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/35988137080.pdf
    • https://fobh.net/userfiles/files/42556398244.pdf
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c53de107a9---21476398405.pdf
    • http://therealmccoyfamilyreunion.com/clients/f/f9/f9ea119420dddc0cc5ac7622830b9f68/File/68633010930.pdf
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/kabedabezuku.pdf
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uppdfaq6n5tv6e8mpbgt73go6c/12134026599.pdf
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b162b7baaaa---jufubekikejagude.pdf
    • http://ombs.ru/uploads/files/57463311083.pdf
    • https://easy2ticket.com/upload/files/72836022867.pdf
    • http://zonweringbelgie.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nagosozisevuxatovusebu.pdf
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0bb2777b79---wezodulizerini.pdf
    • http://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/kurazi.pdf
    • https://personnelcle.com/userfiles/file/6307157107.pdf
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e84f9bff850eb2b5910b5446d628b210/supixexugukogoratifulepe.pdf
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b976c4d961---tesaxaf.pdf
    • http://yule-sign.com/upload/editor/file/20210616112038.pdf
    • 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_off00010e1a.bin
9ce523d7da5722c7826c75661fe445d3926eb119d1d680189032aeabffba873d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E1A 11720 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001298a.bin
b8da9be73107135f4b1544a7587719afd60411fa0251325808f0ea92e7346c49
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1298A 16844 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015517.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15517 16792 bytes