Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1aeec80d7764ff6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-06-23 23:01:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d5681fe3674483fcdfa1455dd3cc1a6d SHA-1: c89fe846335b5b1d6f604b66247c2c2f9713d3d2 SHA-256: 1aeec80d7764ff6e673ba9be463ab21b3cba848afbe9ef3c138ee7f50617d9be
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload delivery attempt. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of "grade 3 reading pdf" in the document body and URL parameters indicates a lure to trick users into clicking on these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://www.herewardcarpets.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ui9vu40mepp8bjk96h4vmplm0r/delusozigabaxipi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cunningham-reunion.com/clients/7/73/7399477c88ef979e1ad3ac38e42cffcc/File/47301147510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984eaa30b45---miroduvav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jpe7al94sb2i49fsgtco3psn1u/futezubabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermaktif.com/imgup/file/78408090482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429232711322019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotstamping.pl/files/file/84674251242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/731862cicn4llaq1lhedpdkmf6/10372427542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cd410dabfbfb64c0fc6c2330bc34188/lilezezufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozanatalan.com/iboard/includes/userfiles/files/nokolopunej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc6aaa03770---90862962358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phdpecs.hu/userfiles/files/34462578451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609830578dbcf---59521975696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/rejab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fittbikese.hu/files/file/zuruzebitekefej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/32347396114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensjonatagat.pl/userfiles/file/42510162585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=grade+3+reading+pdfPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e7a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7A1 5192 bytes
SHA-256: e9571fee96f362a01f476abc5ca8621228330e0241f729042912bd75c2a0ae67
font_01_sfnt_off0000f964.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF964 11308 bytes
SHA-256: ac9f1b4af3dad21336fb115225ad8677ebf26c9aff5f2fcb10aadb5511fcc810