Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5aece2d504e9747…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2021-09-09 04:38:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 34f84014e4b791c6686f78264a742009 SHA-1: a75235c2b6fccfd3f3b89f77a29f3d6441bdd0cc SHA-256: a5aece2d504e9747d5ac2f6ddb3b6f88ab59aab88bfdaaace5bed1e07a861dc6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://www.studioline.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80907423893.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sun-dr.com/uploads/files/202109020503121488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariamontecchia.com/userfiles/files/togiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettosbaffo.com/userfiles/files/lajopegeroxoxekatexobak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbb6ahq3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50176036869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erodiertechnik-wenzel.de/userfiles/file/wiraselabunijebukepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/75340545902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iehyun.com/editorupload/file/xazuletuxemefosunomuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613962679f086---81473025872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3709ba533b20a6d29f02ff412b455bb/36955377727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://misbahelmudii.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40398246679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----9sbbnbtte4cyg.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xupomizuvagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/548d7ddd6a001a2237c34cfb08139cab/rakakazomaxitipepowub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brette-animation.com/userfiles/file/binadevedejise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///88275411425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poulinstrapscan.com/userfiles/file/serarebajatudenomizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/files/mapekekete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedreams.cz/files/54439485986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahjygjg.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-6/20210906113541860575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuitsdartistes.eu/images/file/60656933862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inarchengineering.it/userfiles/files/82253811345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms2gacor.com/contents/files/guwajuwopaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+trade+in+all+star+tower+defensePDF 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_off0000ae52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE52 15412 bytes
SHA-256: b3ce3490f7a242aac0d2707a131c5856754b5cd26be1d3228ce955832a6d4e45
font_01_sfnt_off0000d53e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD53E 10424 bytes
SHA-256: a8ae1f08adc9110dd58700ac8e461f8b675b25ef99e3d2a133b3a218f4f39889
font_02_sfnt_off0000ecfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECFE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1