Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0aef92b625314ce9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-10-08 19:26:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: e5a31dc6a21667ae2fb6badb43da2430 SHA-1: 57ba2a778bf6aceae0626d61765845ed426ffcba SHA-256: 0aef92b625314ce91289d94ce81e41d648a86316b8e6b6ed55623c4e566b99fe
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through deceptive links, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=series+and+parallel+circuits+quiz+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://findingthegrey.com/userfiles/file/12976129013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scea.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rugorov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsanaq.com/upload/file/210913051307398502tti7ckr6fi5p.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cefr1iilethei10spdh3tpuo94/5331569755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yonseri.org/userfiles/files/40536604432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cf2019.codefon.hu/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zeruwepesosewupipazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://learningsolution.ca/userfiles/files/kudofiwubetevunus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiszaikaland.hu/upload/file/56726373409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/13723546462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kham.vn/userfiles/file/ribodifilekevekiwib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141f9aaecf08---toviguduwunud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615ec1c674c5b---7138751392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/zagedaxuwozewotubiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidwoodmachine.com/d/files/67699024846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftp.bg/userfiles/file/rutunuturuxovebonefitula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafmoni2biho.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9116122734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/daxokisonijinojatatax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braveathlete.net/geektic/files/mepunupunevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegioidongphuc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8929814294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polesprogettazioni.com/userfiles/files/59498369857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalshield-uae.com/userfiles/files/jorevolelof.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_off0000cd7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD7D 10876 bytes
SHA-256: da20e2933683453c80ac1c175261f6c67ea923abca314bdb42a1072665e12097
font_01_sfnt_off0000e686.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE686 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE98 17856 bytes
SHA-256: 2653a959a9abdf806f0ca0f3d9c0990118d1c7bcde4fc651574f10ddb08e2004