Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4aecb828e568967…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-13 23:29:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 844022d28db6c9a6b30253f702ab27ec SHA-1: 226bfd410bf0bf52f18898a5be9ad4ad286b3f3f SHA-256: a4aecb828e568967bf4c3dbc02bc9a757a2569676f1df1d20ceb5d36bce908a6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://kheops-so.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52328071417.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mspchicagolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wajano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moretonassets.net/userfiles/55322732451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flammerouge.ch/userfiles/files/rezumunosazojimagalogibus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45833529dcb81572407ef727939e2d3c/puzafipinejepivifixixul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136722b4c238---99740679797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138fafc985f8---29095730100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurskodkb.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/majalubafetasuwatarilufed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://commonwealthsportsawards.com/userfiles/file/xoxisaripuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://take114.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_C53CEFF149C3C851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitchelllawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/feduto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propiedades.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20766095641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cqu0epujc2q54mu16ffbh24u7/jejedepajudiboriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istanbulballoons.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sezomewexenogojasuzod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highlander-inn.com/assets/userfiles/files/88333424047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ferm-matic.fr/upload/file/34054154667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaukiaplinka.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67414398427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geya99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sagidabuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelofthewinds.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61206511990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariabilancino.it/userfiles/files/demamakefabubajubazil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://depcip.com/app/views/panel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23279062821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congtrinhnhaviet.vn/upload/files/wenisakosaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--lenachatka-57b.pl/uploaded/file/91408030164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=gradle+project+sync+failed+basic+functionality+will+not+work+properlyPDF 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_off0000d0d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8E7 19628 bytes
SHA-256: 2397c3fdef1afe68458bf295693644ee8452c22ad6469d68cc4092a36a8b22b3
font_02_sfnt_off00011cec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CEC 11316 bytes
SHA-256: a45eb91ffa4adde17d28c1a5ba647014cb40b9a9b7f4a4429a52e24ad687f817