Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aae2594081e52de4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 12:58:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ed84d3558cef9f298c1a0e8ec31112c4 SHA-1: 2f54b09a3ac1eea9f69768401f6b132f78da8de8 SHA-256: aae2594081e52de4dbcfd53fa1fc0838b734918afe31d0a7464343687e54ae6c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised domains or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 http://porpora.info/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///dafato.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://digireg.org/upload/dujobemipufuwuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avflash.nl/upload/files/87467701879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnlestari.com/visitbali/image/files/gasawerowono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cemeba.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/40012763967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dynamic1984.com/user_file/file/zuzoputolivofulej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c115ae12ca3---8762192528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilygrilltogo.com/uploads/files/38115443928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d45a37450---wekiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokozentrale.de/idata/54748227076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c972e12b1---21103659524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161184863e0e89---23055250323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cam-ceeds.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mozujipatimelutitesiwos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a53eea4d236---99922564520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenlivinggarden.com/htdocs/UserFiles/file/47832608306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mackielaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jovebilim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8japaidla0f3fqgj2forlcs6rj/17814982834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d3597d2ceb52cbcab1b54cf9d07b8e3/tikemikifibenarowobaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falegnameriacastiglione.it/userfiles/files/22492060060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gt7h73ic00bqfhgvs6nfck6fkm/zemumagalokatawunagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd3540a7be894c2995aa803edbbef0f4/2602907470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuga-hotel.com/CKEdit/upload/files/dovepitowudesofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.proyecpapel.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87079737618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=englander+pellet+stove+service+manualPDF 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_off0000c3df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBF1 18216 bytes
SHA-256: 4e1ed5d3d3f490e27b394f07b1a7fedee4a9d56b7800fa1d16c050c36c013b04
font_02_sfnt_off00010b20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B20 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 9e8ab3833b1b913133b88b6b5091b2f4e406bc1ac6805f1306b640dd47f4e2b4