Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4aece5f025bc7fbe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:07:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: e66253415e401fdc8d6b73096560b21f SHA-1: cb7a94bae8198eb932120ebba408862ba22c3725 SHA-256: 4aece5f025bc7fbe09b31873af8d1b145984bf25f11e1ee3c95f4273f1c0d573
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's likely a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to external resources, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content or further stages of an attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

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.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ir5mgfqa34o1tq4rimvmr3mq55/15210854152.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a03cbd79889dce2cac14c1194cd5da1/jeboditawazuneremak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/958f4d8e0408edca9303febeeb28a839/negapojupizififodapezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monterroso-construpuntos.com/campannas/file/tebegemopurera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teenaramainc.org/clients/875997/File/xapozelujanujuwamizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dac518db8e---90987494620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://collegium-connect.nl/ckupload/files/95204011434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/17752264497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0dcf9be75c43ad975d01606dd1a7021/73640325039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940b9a7f6f5---jejaripofubujawonojigir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ada58c27d---69938658897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ofc8lu7ljlt1d8mvpfr1sn0fp5/dawulivijotemegidagim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tekizolasyon.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96042478626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/3955301201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toliveinchristjesus.ceosale.catholic.edu.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/woxanirosuwidefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8cde702b04---xamemulaladinavubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weberstellen.ch/userfiles/file/94535836211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://area100impianti.it/userfiles/files/wabokadusipufita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ev74k2r4ltqoofptra9jpioi3/xejabureginekidokokibube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://at2apigroup3.com/contents/files/xosiludidonarusuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720e5e9ed31---32540786516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ead2e43156---wagitivakexijoletenuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transcash.com/ci/userfiles/files/sopobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0451.com/userfiles/file/20210822094951_zcixmw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cck-brno.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21955199602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=feature+writing+guide+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_off0001131f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1131F 20356 bytes
SHA-256: af4ff2905fc75ef58fbd1542896a23d7dd502a65e28e634f8ab6238854061299
font_01_sfnt_off000147a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147A2 10500 bytes
SHA-256: f9589b69a9d8204493f665f88ddf517939f116d978df003e634a648de0142759
font_02_sfnt_off00015f72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15F72 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1