Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ae67d1cb8cc05d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 22:06:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d3988c40feaad763de8772bf4b5e46f0 SHA-1: 0e240c58dbf4f3fcf71b79fbf22425d5aca0554d SHA-256: 1ae67d1cb8cc05d24125012fba7f7d96fe093d3a128a9acec27c56ea824ce0a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised WordPress installations, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+tablet+wholesale+price PDF link annotation
    • http://quiltingacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/54289061599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bentleyplemtech.ru/userfiles/file/woxulojunadupasez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/zubisijakobetafijuligob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vinoplaza.nl/img/upload/files/7593527540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsm62.org/uploads/news/file/56950041990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gonguyenkhoi.vn/upload/files/80079169103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136929e3680f---gemupakamaravavazopagib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/pawusifaxukukexisufapabed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dent-pro.cz/pic/file/98905332424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smsgurugram.com/miet/assets/files/93877385786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134085ab6b07---wobamaminage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angerdress.store/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zenawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c-six.it/userfiles/files/48097869390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0975811252cool.linker.tw/files/ralufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161387db386fe8---jivomilobudaxedes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fizjoactiv.eu/Upload/file/75214385410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghibms.com/userfiles/files/mukixelitovuwisuwajolodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isspskola.lv/userfiles/files/dudatifufiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fb5f1478ec---48363118494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitapkaplama.com/upload/ckfinder/files/17233781206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laureysnv.be/uploads/files/57232366013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifeline-sports.com/files/file/3338131140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agama-rc.com/upload/files/64305649612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artetendasud.it/userfiles/files/derobipedugebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwsm-hk.com/files/file/29551610105.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_off0000e50f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE50F 17616 bytes
SHA-256: 3f7026abae4602795505750dffadc61f8f93c8ba02e1462a9f90fb14999367b0
font_01_sfnt_off000112ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ac4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AC4 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 367683114639ab6e16c6ef0570edb6fb807bcf3c6da36eb0e984109c7156bb2e

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