Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aae52291bcff95b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 05:34:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 03c6444eab41d24d98634c1274c45ec7 SHA-1: 99cd176019182275ce94c9f8b23bf6fc084b83e2 SHA-256: aae52291bcff95b9030af8f47c5be235027782610ca0a43dfee99e5806406333
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing lure impersonating Microsoft. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=download+howl%27s+moving+castle+book.
  • 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://barbusci.it/maisUserFile/file/zuwotet.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082bb48c32fc---56486939498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3247bc019e---60729021779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdd595031b5---19256880543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evergreencans.com/userfiles/file/97850536821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af639550849---78903298184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/93188071795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784522b856f---vujogagesokefipavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609859809cd02---5800351930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609467509240a---gemupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yssnewlessons.org/UserFilesTwo/file/54136021081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delvalle68.com/clients/54584/File/95814313740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ac6c88f18a0122cd29a525fb9107e48/nulezunisuvusefedina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mdsfmc7nngmf0vdhir61k2ok65/51334099373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sys-svinding.dk/userfiles/file/82749511232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c3nbf3h08db6cknp0hrqfk6rq/2545011135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/33990943804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-dcc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bnltgocl1vpncu3tkge1lcue3h/41547786623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/datevekuwezoguju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e568a0341fb1f23fe3dda04d6e4ff90/34753292226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cf2514c659c7f28781ee528f1436b93/soxawewufefanizago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarlampa.ru/upload_picture/vasolimitegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=download+howl%27s+moving+castle+bookPDF 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_off00011133.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11133 11136 bytes
SHA-256: aeb285767d3421ab19a4535d856020cce6a257fc57ab60f8b8c578aff6c11be9
font_01_sfnt_off00012ae3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AE3 17484 bytes
SHA-256: 1dc6c26a8dbe23051478a49dff7d08cf019b80b273958fd627f0e4c41a19c32c
font_02_sfnt_off000158ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x158EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1