Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1aefba54ecef0fc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 13:11:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d48f91cea5661701bddcd8bda1463338 SHA-1: 0524a2376a269d7e289e93c790b0f7ee209de583 SHA-256: 1aefba54ecef0fc85d8f72dbc936c2418f3825080a1a8cd0aedae7a02207efc8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm, with several links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. The document body is unreadable binary data, providing no further context.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9867

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 https://masterjobintl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35339922175.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fszhenjia.com/upfolder/e/files/20210904085616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d7fa733573---repuwutitux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af71163fd32---61772353064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1e8dfa566608fce87d968d975206dd1/8296949894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jr.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/balefavomeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agot.pl/upload/file/megudidap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607418ff6724e---96812752648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdanhaudio.com/luutru/files/pagujuzinetazodebomed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qeok7skd8ltms1m6qbqi0e59ug/telutezida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etadelloro.it/images/file/58071440346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5933e4bc677c1fb479da58a939c0a8e/44514774212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kielcenoca.pl/files/file/22307177906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingdomofgodmn.org/userfiles/files/34688419820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094829a0c5c3---guropesovom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58ec9d2743a2dd675d66a2440e6b45ee/risofawezakagokugisevop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8jile9brlj6jocuc8vf2l0brhl/bapibozarezutusevitome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilltop1976.com/clients/24685/File/69893037496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bc070018f3---59676900179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triatlonshop.cz/userfiles/file/lejosusop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carrieres-pierre.com/userfiles/file/87968357794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eoc1tt1l4fco01ah65f298t1g0/fixejugoroviseduxajuvuras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d826462a10d---52448480652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cteogh9le3r7260csjrfgj9n0/vefuketarepur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marcuspietrek.de/MARCUS/files/file/nebawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaint-house.com/maxetupoviri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexandersorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/15963334345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=english+vocabulary+b2+level+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://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_off0001213e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1213E 11324 bytes
SHA-256: 720823bb8f147039e7202e279345061f9d05c76282b3ca120fb7568f16ebd4cf
font_01_sfnt_off00013b6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B6E 18784 bytes
SHA-256: 90a5b807ff3061558fbd7961a937cfeef8773e229fe822f6b92559d0f7d512f0
font_02_sfnt_off00016be3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16BE3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1