Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4aeca2b4a48a87ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.3 KB Created: 2021-08-03 10:42:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4313fbaec50eddf0d821787e0ab7a0f9 SHA-1: 4d6d14c4f62113a9a3d9dc67f30fdfd2994f3bc7 SHA-256: 4aeca2b4a48a87ec9d990dfe958265ccc1049dc1e0d8d1de8cc79972dad00d35
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for phishing or malware. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm detection further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=acuerdos+de+paz+en+guatemala+pdf+completo
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0215741421---pukelatawasepe.pdf
    • http://onlineticketreview.com/images/file/pogewixo.pdf
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac955e90a3---putoxubudo.pdf
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080db915b6ae---53748835780.pdf
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a43a07f7da557c082ad5ef510eb0650/60454946018.pdf
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9ed92b3cc6---17945483618.pdf
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607208bed3869---83560232354.pdf
    • http://suacuacuonthanhhoa.com/upload/files/mirunufad.pdf
    • http://kgmda.com/upload/files/7445774238.pdf
    • https://toliveinchristjesus.ceosale.catholic.edu.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pugedobisegosugep.pdf
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d283748bf---sijifurawegixasulitera.pdf
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772341ef11b---zokasipogokutotefedetox.pdf
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/896017420694dc417961fd723df50ccb/70178437669.pdf
    • https://tempegaring.com/contents//files/ratefiwob.pdf
    • http://lamekatus.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/negasutipexusa.pdf
    • https://ckmusicdesign.nl/userfiles/file/61606153963.pdf
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e0fa05349c---6198984994.pdf
    • http://museodegliarazzimarsala.com/userfiles/files/21886658988.pdf
    • https://sentinels.ro/userfiles/file/tusokivijeka.pdf
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c627e00da5a---18272555476.pdf
    • https://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd81dfe759dcdc52690897583bbbddae/59516105938.pdf
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d2870fc9a3ffa936b46ac9cf0c6ac62/53701965543.pdf
    • https://tiklatakip.com/calisma2/files/uploads/94461168303.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000169c4.bin
07ef5b97ff326959a084c882f912c71d0be8952a728ae653c3b8b2287014689f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x169C4 11012 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00018342.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18342 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00019b54.bin
f80e76276d31c3f0566140d7015a51dbd7e866256a9154ddce58b6d1b4ad40c9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19B54 18732 bytes