Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ace7011d5bd4413d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-09-17 07:26:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 3fa1f73b7ba7ce46509f1acbfe67eb79 SHA-1: e9e422cc5e277bdb0bc224f208cc4d8582dd6334 SHA-256: ace7011d5bd4413d9ab2482cdb6c3f00aa8aa482afa1a890660448a3e5e589c1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of link farms often involves JavaScript to redirect or obfuscate the final destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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 http://slsnn.ru/content/files/28862441897.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tao-oita.com/admin/upload_filesfile/18903391795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abovomedia.hu/_user/file/xavebogawiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbladvtgxneccoge3bt.xn--p1ai/pict/file/gowapuzujawenolof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbladvtgxneccoge3bt.xn--p1ai/pict/file/runulafogupowem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3wsystems.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/jiboxabiritedebuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pes.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dadavibelivaferu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karmand24.ir/basefile/ehotel724ir/files/45348910215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michardardillier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1725569020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b626423c60d05eb40ffd74f27707b814/dafukerarowapavek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d949e02426---zemojukororoxirerew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/43986060730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongpakthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45544637120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/susineris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keluargamimpi.com/contents/files/27317151250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/189e3785aa6ef3e92f3fc040d0f55b0e/xininulibanuzalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroykap.com/application/views/stroykap/userfiles/file/nudorevulumudubuvalikekog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161346779b94ed---86573793940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghettaetamionarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/53381736797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bmo-agencement.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44588733987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614278b93a1c8---20421261369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130f78cb6bb3---tavis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljjxmining.com/uploadfile/file///2021091316014062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rrbrentacars.com/files/others/piponixadaseseluma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liur-krd.ru/userfiles/file/36216008768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=offline+maps+%26+navigation+new+apkPDF 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_off0000ce91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE91 10228 bytes
SHA-256: 90d8e5c2758a68c1a8ff67d35c5223b9562f2f13bfd508188c38f85d6634c510
font_01_sfnt_off0000e57c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE57C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD8E 17256 bytes
SHA-256: d9ed9d4af4177467943c956333b54f378bd3e036354acb73d8779191e661da41