Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8aed29c75aaef5e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-06-18 13:51:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 74455c1f0d2c37daa582edb17bfff15e SHA-1: 903146af7a5aba84ad32f482aab93717809d6056 SHA-256: 8aed29c75aaef5e1c628dfdfb970729c22b60458b68cbbba031ab90c723ccd4f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed for malicious purposes. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, but no direct instructions or lures are readable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://homenet-spb.ru/userfiles/file/57462300639.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cintabogor.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/luzosewutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.apsetedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a73a1e8b4---95749314296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qtpas28o79rbrd0fhd167vbl4d/3142465604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94a35a840dcb254779046fde66a85c06/76230358275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10a36ef607f4b88ba9e608e3eac95e44/1757341733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdds.be/userfiles/file/43484744149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/jisel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078286de9a44---nawugatubudufuvogubij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d033e1f559---xekowumagugiwomixas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210510041551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxmeterthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xefefuwomerujuwulaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/615472f9447b2cdad93724efd91cdab3/leravotubomakedetapexepov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blueoak.fr/image/file/81172692102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50ae5bb7f9d9bdc364ce24e77499bd5d/15239875882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b2568cdc147b804c3f6a4d00f079c1a/gabezamepunerevaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=answered+prayer+baby+girl+namePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f54f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF54F 5600 bytes
SHA-256: 09bf0525e1b0dabd2b4209bc4533af8c50023997a90934ef6ec2ba34ad04eb07
font_01_sfnt_off0001085e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1085E 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 3362f932b2c11fcde14ece9d8b2fed6ce713cab125ff7a314017b7c46ab7a115