Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aae2c5fe62963dc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-10-09 02:23:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: a5ef315c6992e6f664abd4ac6be46ff3 SHA-1: 2e31e53b68aaa87ad24f84093798c08fd45a6eb4 SHA-256: aae2c5fe62963dc839c2cc563500fb926bdc50664c09cd35bf2f9c76ee059961
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be part of link farms or hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The primary function seems to be redirecting users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=data+structure+notes+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://agriturismolescuderie.eu/userfiles/files/sabudemowizoxakiramurovep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161519b9dbc53b---lavomewir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mptradingcompany.com/userfiles/file/fusapibinipilovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16158b3a54cf5c---duxelamorukibesekago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30700433465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upakuika.com/img/file/xakefoguwataduzuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://needletherapy.eu/upload/file/fegikuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e9d559e602---26028327454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://templeton.sk/userfiles/file/nidubiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e2046abb83---32095927269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hdurmuslar.com/images_upload/files/fobuviwapoxegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://majortaylorride.info/images/uploaded/file/warudoxaligevadilup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvit-bk.ru/userfiles/file/37716636439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prtl.pl/userfiles/file/40804572507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615075c10c184---9511121660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e76d70b5999b8d94976a7b1c23720e4/notozuvarupalupogase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nelly-design.ru/upload/files/91410565969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativetalentnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/serazajafejikumepudebizam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chargooshads.com/images/upload/files/fixelar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-journal.com/media/file/2795206101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000bbd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBD5 10576 bytes
SHA-256: ded290c36f89151be7dd35d9bd7a584b07b1c5301fd351c02139306a5ee969df
font_01_sfnt_off0000d41e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD41E 16980 bytes
SHA-256: 38b86539af48b7682d9a9a3a73c8a5bd415220ea99c87008003186671bb7a5ee
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFBE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1