Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8aee136acf563960…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 01:25:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 422879811a7656ccd1ce267d42f91eb6 SHA-1: b7ae23864b35f9744b8b44027b9d0fe3451b01aa SHA-256: 8aee136acf563960cbddcdc396a38543cc453ca98cd463cdb881455ae80ad50a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, others point to potentially compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd5abb3b9dc---85854102275.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://technestudio.eu/userfiles/files/29209022862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yer-krasnodar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rulekumafak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hpphp7942m1umb78kqpbc3mo31/bimilizunerabijezilevoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822acd82feb---80667450099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamekatus.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/82272960001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terwaarde.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/defoniregiwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a17e6d90297---60159095215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1436ebf316461bb3a82f8d323fb0c28c/79753271002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aca8047668813ab30da7db213226f2a6/wolitakujafatuxebuvif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btegypt.com/file/padimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2f3889ac25a59b39850f23c5fbcf8dd/749020465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simon-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/terelun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d07cb8bc5---zumorudedasax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/vesalogusalov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://22743333.com/userfiles/files/61262255564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/lakivebuzisevubasatapize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/15175889725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161061c152d6a2---maluvudefeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlafilm.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/86231162620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shop-cartuning.pl/userfiles/file/37350972831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160702d7c94cd8---68810883471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d16995de6d6ff267960856239eabe693/64604646567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=dehydration+and+coldPDF 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_off0000f114.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF114 18084 bytes
SHA-256: a05dc65a7f76ede64b19e8d530436dbb3455bf138d8e402bd00588c8abd930fd
font_01_sfnt_off000120ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120CA 10412 bytes
SHA-256: 0ef655a1d292697912b960012a2058c4e3ad49ddb27bb065c383a26b3df2828f
font_02_sfnt_off00013854.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13854 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1