Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8aeb39fcc5c59888…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-08-01 19:26:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 4d2079775d728f95d448042fecf8a555 SHA-1: a296a971e85a1178e6008cb9534520db9c0b1031 SHA-256: 8aeb39fcc5c5988857491b903acb15d06e04fb775ead6393c83a930549b0b944
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The document contains instructions to disable security software, a high-risk indicator for unsolicited files. It also functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised WordPress upload locations, likely to download a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85021c9bd1828a32ac5121f37d8b7b83/44641584452.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cf1c52908f21da1dc32b554c3288864/rekubemokoluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scard.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/73652715025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/14864499814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef067c828447ed3175d365dadaf6cb42/96633243419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.basur-tedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700bdd35f57---kigakidojejilidafigas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f31791529b---senekuriwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/masadeleremoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/55755178527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/33729273174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610624f3690bf---nirerera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c760328cc5850ccc2125347af46403d8/dekod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/faponu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d4024872bb---4866576594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65579fd7166cd9f20c03c0de6cde0c64/rinuwela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ldksolar-officialliquidation.com/userfiles/files/77603003651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6e27905d9a---3973388301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/desurubuzatifikaravire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natyabio.com/uploadfiles/silozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blsautomation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/latifijewofuliru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a91a5016c5e---50580984591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omatsuri.kr/data/userfiles/files/lireditekonarif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=advanced+systemcare+14+pro+indirPDF 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_off0000fefc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEFC 19608 bytes
SHA-256: 9346abf2899853f94d8315ecba4bad6e38ab1d5e28be0a34d0e7c814579f995f
font_01_sfnt_off000130cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130CC 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 1d65a932e4c0eb19c4ef798fda44004bdd049fac7c6a2aabe69b80033b8f38e0
font_02_sfnt_off00014a39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A39 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1