Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ae688773a2c465a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-12 00:50:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: a7679f6472201683a7c9474e77aea00a SHA-1: 3051d8d816824a230a0d0705868e73e6b68564dc SHA-256: 1ae688773a2c465ae18025255a563693af827f6d878ffa4e4b151c23f9ed0ba6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised CMS upload locations and disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. The presence of multiple external URIs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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 http://pathtojanna.com/userfiles/files/mibiresalokuzox.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed9dc365a8ec96f15b3d0b3353d8633e/40773643279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vnmmalta.com/userfiles/file/56543424231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://100tmt.com/uploadimage/files/20210901122950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62998e5e2234755e90ce2ba46ed81f59/zidedutipuwewavafefitam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d483eee65ace59ec6f94cbfa9da3c69c/lomuwolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135a2076c152---26630924231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bb0e2e547d---negerizarijuwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/35484292747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnyuanzong.com/uploads/files/20210905171156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c737496e512081f2a8d7e8ece83b5681/37627107778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/majeragozepugupir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinajnbt.com/images/upload/File/40288867275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yulintimber.cn/d/files/mudekodedufifakexobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rh-h1tapi-turbo.com/contents/files/62584281695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naso10.com/userData/board/file/dikikejifoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whatshoulditcostme.com/userfiles/file/gininufojotakavenoniwogan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134c22d1be61---zilik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/fasabawekufimelepesevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iqmuseum.mn/uploads/files/4707371259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shop-ecobati.com/medias/upload/files/peditibezofesokujijokus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papersacksfactory.ae/images/bulk_images/files/lugodenidosebosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edinburghpools.com/contents/files/pisivinodogaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transportdiverse.com/uploads/files/jepaxuguxibet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stotex.rs/files/jenokob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=pubg+mobile+lite+apk+modPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000e6b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6B7 10696 bytes
SHA-256: cdda6e382f7038761a122b11c2fa72fa97e9574f53090b75c610f39c49fe05d5
font_01_sfnt_off0000fed0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFED0 17936 bytes
SHA-256: 1b413ac781e3dfbc96696d728a674feea5e0aa75a88e1418b5328b0c7c2aba28
font_02_sfnt_off00012d01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D01 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1