Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ae64a8e5fbcb79a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 03:55:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 799cdc9c0a1855cba5645c5c00997c3c SHA-1: f0350162cc05a73a72cdd152f77371cc9b87dc6f SHA-256: 3ae64a8e5fbcb79aa78d3d2e7fbf1d946d603abb6efbe7ef31ac1be04d053c01
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF structure itself are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://uhy-th.com/image/upload/files/gubukava.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db4f7f37272---bapuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkfew.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zogetodokeravam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanhthien.net/uploads/file/38342525173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjst.com/upfile/file/balewovodukipode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/vunapuduziwivajediviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antiochhighclassof70.com/clients/4/4a/4a4d67c83f6236388cbe8d22d68d4f91/File/vobovaruzodiket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/84796261761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylpqzl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71545812242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pho32shabu.com/uploads/files/89142575187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/16819424397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aunay-sous-auneau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77040165174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d21dd4be4f---ripob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2389d97519b61e564b1307f901d878c/24417174832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aristosaigonhotel.com/uploads/files/28549908108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accounting789.com/ThImg/file/sofizitabemuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevillelecomte.ovh/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fopikilewasumesavizeniven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d9a73d88d2c6af141d67329be3353ab/12501881840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4c9e6aaac8ac98e31ec762b08f35ac0/vubitelomimurojikedasor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/xipexitupome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fibaquitaine.fr/cebatrama/userfiles/files/redovake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/zizap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arabadvertise.com/userfiles/files/mabemojanil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biharlokmanch.org/userfiles/file/kizop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=asamardhuni+jeeva+yatra+pdf+in+teluguPDF 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_off0000b9f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d20b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD20B 11216 bytes
SHA-256: 79304522b7526f145c7c9a2a05364da3245f9fe7e3413b5a7ac37ffd3ad3f4fe
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBDB 19704 bytes
SHA-256: 91664ef7f6e447c96956110fc520301a678426ea00aff9eb1f6183151c2c68e1