Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae003e5a9984a2b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-09-24 17:03:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 1256f4da42db2a5fc61ba8f85739aaeb SHA-1: f93cbc6b6af2ff98934f11f2fbb4356a53c538dc SHA-256: ae003e5a9984a2b4b2cd4914c331240dc0d49607d5d8ac3fc8f270e493db5ace
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm pattern points towards an attempt to manipulate search results or redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://madang.eu/f_pds/fck/file/gofalesixuvejenug.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/62836291849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designklasse.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xavevateti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bnblspecialities.com/userfiles/files/83939294041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141d10b3bdaf---sobotawofoxigavinanir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netcsemege.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28035598405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residenzaeden-albisola.com/userfiles/files/13981860940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cellesekorea.com/ckupload/files/79048485676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ap-qatar.com/userfiles/files/75274918577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thokhoavietnam.com/upload/files/wosafibuwukutosavaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146262d90379---49969495687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteur-ribot.fr/userfiles/file/16947222614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okfilm.kr/userData/board/file/19371813632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ppmofn77v69deslpllog93s6t7/minuzoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://506hlapeta.com/files/file/danevaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134b948354b2---84741680045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdemlerkoleji.com/resimler/files/42198672025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetplus.com/userfiles/files/niwikexapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://curewelldiabetes.com/userfiles/file/83243086348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3peav5p6bicu5m3l39jmm5ript/pumoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urparitet.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60033383360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ticketsperiodico.com/galeria/files/71615670787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=keyboard+for+android+apk+downloadPDF 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_off0000b648.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB648 18876 bytes
SHA-256: c5f6a14eb65eea1b0bd0f698b3485e7e9c41e876c243677cf2db92e219b592a9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e759.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE759 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF70 10648 bytes
SHA-256: edde6e66facf0d7eadb95e01d05069f6a161dab156ebdef48291eec05f0d4a64