Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0ae8bfa6e3d2eee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-07-02 01:23:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 50cf034b2d73a630400b645d26e8d202 SHA-1: 8be1c318f82a9532e96982a1017b3e2933f16fae SHA-256: a0ae8bfa6e3d2eee71106a2d93f7391daa95adc923f5c6b55517c45771118efd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rgq033k1js57ltvt0tcjvnenng/93639904001.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607dee1118263---91671851481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945ed8558fb---93611250574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/17174816356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0deabd0db076c2f5ac911466d6e51cd/69883723590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/66347149609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa24ae532f1---3610196740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ea5b63084---zawena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icsbc.ru/fuploader//file/26439299223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6ed98384e---tubiwuseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608035ee326d4---25429175308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f94aa2dab3---65648425734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morard-mcf.fr/data/Files/xanowafapibuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/33368092824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akazwaeiw.xn--p1ai/editorfiles/file/wibojakatezetowumulikegaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7mlnci6kcpbbrvlskf0ootn95/66853495862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://secolink.sk/userfiles/file/45935041556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arichaindia.com/userfiles/file/76825888332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capital96.com/userfiles/file/muzazepumakisemudinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burstallconrad.com/editor_files/file/30003598572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5d62b5a701---jobatodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/xafepekakimokuviduze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab12b964001---sipunuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=healthy+applesauce+spice+cakePDF 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_off0000fd0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD0C 10444 bytes
SHA-256: 73457cbd60881e3824528e4fd197cf163e99fd5ad644a59da242695f63f25a6c
font_01_sfnt_off000114e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114E1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012cf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CF3 17720 bytes
SHA-256: 40552245ba7b029dc3f115c8d970be83414b777e82f7498ec776c5343da3dce5