Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ae8aec2617d2560…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 01:54:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8e64ddb174bfc60495cf0449ef795600 SHA-1: 085ea4effa14a61be8d25f595abec278870f431d SHA-256: 1ae8aec2617d25607ea132071cbb8c7401d2c341eccb210ce42480c0cbea04e1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. ClamAV also detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://sakuragiramenandsushi.com/uploads/files/6695865865.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161101757a5ca0---54757766585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b009df3a10091a7720c77955e9196f40/mituxoxeriduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katyababash.com/images/uploads/file/zerutobavexojabalom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/dizobikorobaputet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bdb7e58180aca812fb90f08afb85376/vokexamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806e4d5a22c---89861646638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f73df73e0d---72061461917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posekatzahradu.cz/files/file/fojosevuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pgnsualumni.com/clients/872691/File/58997926315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johncarroll1967.com/clients/1/18/1896e795ecc2602204d707ec4e69586f/File/30077781770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pzhjintai.com/upload/files/46764702949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd633d604bd---61120351160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emanuelmlevin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zijelakedes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asesoriagade.com/app/webroot/files/files/44411785692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cottagegrad.ru/files/file/86355749481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e1a4397119b2c921d89d194b69214c6/fobipid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuongninhphat.com/uploads/userfiles/file/kidudowid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rm1u3fkete3os3bka7bvb5fiaa/96159758703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k77v2jr73n23074a8hg6l8uk7i/zupogowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9a4a4981671f85ec7e193f993b5a753/zitoxomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=blank+packing+list+form+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://lapdonline.org/file/72875832407.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_off0000c99d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC99D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1AF 17240 bytes
SHA-256: 4e040ca2470bf65a528aafa9ae4802b6c293dfa0579df799fd73f389b7be496a
font_02_sfnt_off00010d3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D3F 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 6b5a351812fd7ccb195d452cbf757c281eb5d34006c96ba634d7dd912ce30b3f