Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ae6d3867ac15ade…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:08:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8bc7a71ae090d1680bd7985a7c214c90 SHA-1: 3bd21841792c970fd2e0ea97761d35cfb907ffa3 SHA-256: 4ae6d3867ac15ade4f228fd51414d13e7befa32f4e11a2a0d40881cafb4d5d23
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URLs are indicative of a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=missionaries+and+cannibals+problem+solution+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://md-servicios.com/userfiles/file/dodumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/tulogutipojadifezutaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609683cc5f6f5---kudani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sofupingame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/78291522432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.biz/upload/ck/files/36436574423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbjadow.pl/attachments/file/99790825203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gloriamus.org/Uploads/userfiles/files/bimuzojikerukatipigugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/830a147195ed74de79aa9a1c1f1c4ba5/79718600948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c665dd9f2ae---jonowamafeliniwilana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qishuochem.com/siicea/userfiles/file/3184243106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delphin-restaurant.com/ckfinder/upload/files/belisoxawobugivivizos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b89d08be8---mafapif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608acf954d3d6---jotifixoxuborezosabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612196ed00a18---fugotobes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samafb.org/uploadfilefiles/70448788629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crossfitbeeshark.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/madirijukimowuxokadipas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mabifitness.it/userfiles/files/44840308577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c12be141348---xalowavazisikukufana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manilag.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210825_448808DF2B200D14.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d81b160924990a161beebd5edd9317b/16832278995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fea7178cf64f2884ca24a1dfc42578d/56166647038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikkosushi.com/uploads/files/70126081026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mq644k6dadul2q18nrga11mn83/sopuvewurebex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutamobilya.com/images_upload/files/50492561953.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_off0000e813.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE813 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 0fb776031ec25e0646bb8a75585523002c26be5a242761f8f0fc62391bf92af8
font_01_sfnt_off00010170.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10170 18492 bytes
SHA-256: b8679807c5629a96411b57068bb6a14163953ffd0776ec7b6b1e4c3c9d6e1227
font_02_sfnt_off0001311d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1311D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1