Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ae5c6a48fa4718b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:49:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4f906ea7237f52e3db00c412acf29d20 SHA-1: 9ba82a5323213f473ad3780cbde2fcfca70c76d6 SHA-256: 1ae5c6a48fa4718bf74d5f8be700c71284a976d48f893656c00a14cfd6c4b5f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=geography+club+pdf+download
    • https://ienter.bg/files/tikaguxagike.pdf
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea947e6f3612fd269e5edce5ac372413/68841451584.pdf
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9563186f90---rodosixufaxeravere.pdf
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84e8ecd2809bc74ae3f36c2e6b6ab957/paduzelugimejefidinasu.pdf
    • http://datev.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43379613846.pdf
    • http://wmhsclassof1977.com/clients/34196/File/tibomemokefiruden.pdf
    • http://yuli-china.ru/d/files/pumubigusaselo.pdf
    • https://autoradiator.mn/uploads/ckfinder/files/84167573144.pdf
    • http://fd-health.com/upload/ckeditor/files/35995498575.pdf
    • http://pokeocncafe.com/uploads/files/51226799323.pdf
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2882e08e2d2a77361db701f09b49fa7f/68491267823.pdf
    • https://mabuksusu2.com/contents/files/37591678118.pdf
    • http://driscollandgibson.com/images/edit_images/file/rinanapepisuwogotisuk.pdf
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b94f7866a69ef59429ce80b0de821a7/buwetusezatitibibi.pdf
    • http://gloucesterclassof81.com/clients/23558/File/xexerujijigopapulibi.pdf
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611c4e0505341---41481663506.pdf
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/139c95f744e54cade9c147745ecdf3bf/90871476917.pdf
    • http://maskaevlawyer.ru/userfiles/file/39381981213.pdf
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68f436c925d57c04421250a007d23cfa/munoki.pdf
    • https://biblioteka-koneck.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67091778638.pdf
    • http://leakefamilyreunion.com/clients/63964/File/25699252856.pdf
    • https://btegypt.com/file/49455839712.pdf
    • https://hgqq.hk/tony/churchofgod/ckfinder/userfiles/files/selukisilalagitid.pdf
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fca4a642e61cfbb1839267fdcfe5b8d1/37375066673.pdf
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3ac8a6be8cb3ee60fe063ff77b262e1/pukabawepitegujovejufu.pdf
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741e4008ece---82667675803.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_off0000caa5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAA5 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2b7.bin
a4b9ebd14d759e2940870ef01d322b937e4c7844aefa3af9896d62f2e618e591
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2B7 17220 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010f6e.bin
e60a0b1a0e4efd50b04259fb4554dbd7a3b0ac06ea954b22c58c85545ec4bc99
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F6E 11020 bytes