Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ae794f447244477…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 10:02:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 4179455b870f8268b83ca31469567da3 SHA-1: aafeed7a8a8541bc3506a21043dd225dddeaee53 SHA-256: 6ae794f447244477034bc2343ba55202823db39160d0564d8112a00b8c7089f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/62648732998.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://strechybenesov.cz/content/negivawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be45afe1ed2---73880627617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34e72b3ba808e2e9cfae7ef39435fb41/rutonuwuzufameliwive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qcnqfjbf165hk8o2igths0dkf5/21923041498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5vpjrdnc59neh4qkncob6qhqh0/forerugapomipukewimotobin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7808936c2102561dc93d6496bc492a78/53646443796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b02cc32eaf---fosevixonujusutulalonos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartgallery.com/clientMedia/file/92597904813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-appartement-venise.com/italie_documents/files/baminadiparafanijezaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jl7ktg60acuvmb8fmlu4s89mf4/tobexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609610d1c3f7e---21625580800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a48cdff2b60---fabimobepasuvugavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfa0a63be4b895b92ce1b9a5f65d2583/42475271555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ckfgh59ablnu5eh7itp2tgp7n1/budib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/43145659835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607225614d73c---71826911925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.autodepotperformancegroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vn6dd9cm18s8tfp85tujml128h/90241970847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gesas.it/media/mailinglist/file/daginasax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a0b6f3d706529b3e8ed08692a583691/pobuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eed4336b1e62398ed8c0aea37ef6eb33/kopofezikagizoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigyikesmedia.com/home/xtremweb/public_html/consultinstitute/web/upload/files/2789493001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/38235387774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=local+causes+of+epistaxisPDF 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_off00011a0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A0A 10428 bytes
SHA-256: ffb628b7e6fe945e8f31f510d7d65a70468aecd91e14d8003bae7a4e4b818442
font_01_sfnt_off000131d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131D7 19240 bytes
SHA-256: fd8abc5b6f6d64b385a8f5b9fc4c39b91e013813be52f6c81d928a00c5a2dddd
font_02_sfnt_off00016449.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16449 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1