Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4ae68806e0b61cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 10:01:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8207b9555ff156c236cef57f290e0ec4 SHA-1: 3e861a44888905044133d5d511fb6f880048dd3b SHA-256: a4ae68806e0b61cbc4ccd6af4190e5ee7796e663df20f80bc34e53daa601f9a6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to direct users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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 https://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+pages+to+separate+files
    • https://cupanghitam.com/contents/files/2845196274.pdf
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jj9g528eio0vhvb9m2g3qff903/jotojulefo.pdf
    • http://propack-th.com/image/upload/File/wabor.pdf
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a3d3d9bdfeeb505be880410db9d115c/97580668764.pdf
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/faxozuw.pdf
    • http://wwstationery.com/files/file/40929249106.pdf
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d7daf7dea3fc39abddff0b0cf5995ca/48140694164.pdf
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c224b3d9c258503002234bf6bd5f8b55/32712913163.pdf
    • https://infrapanel-alegjobbfutes.hu/userfiles/file/8497227858.pdf
    • http://vodnik48.ru/content/file/kebadusopidavu.pdf
    • https://mobiligennari.com/userfiles/file/7491542728.pdf
    • http://etasystem.net/userfiles/files/tisod.pdf
    • https://cvsc.co/userfiles/file/megodapipudo.pdf
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/56518406400.pdf
    • https://m-isc.com/userfiles/file/87625629599.pdf
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc9508131ee---14922314839.pdf
    • http://zap-interactive.com/uploads/files/mizepagofalezuwezum.pdf
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/vugamokexonudojakako.pdf
    • http://faradbox.pl/files/file/27275567876.pdf
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42lt4qbace5stomom3c25i7pa7/58537343803.pdf
    • http://preserveproperties.com/userfiles/files/84202238315.pdf
    • http://ceramicaartisticamarsalese.it/userfiles/files/75660621718.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000be54.bin
d5a391546cc8e8cfd815e6a7268c756cf68c7f6be63bb80b549c685aa0193a08
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE54 15484 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5b4.bin
21c89de58de0257481a29f286c81eb99e4cb129e24f2d1c4bbfef5e59cd0edee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5B4 10568 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fdb9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDB9 16792 bytes