Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae049b84e4878c44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.2 KB Created: 2021-06-28 01:54:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: e83221abd27121461f810c44f2197882 SHA-1: 9b8c78f95ae92751a40e0285da9fc12bd21bd2c9 SHA-256: ae049b84e4878c44d413997bcbf3de0a46fe7db55d76610ece8ad7b3d3b5d0a6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or lead users to phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9940

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://malabarmail.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pifaze.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ash-graphy.com/userfiles/file/vutifisejadaxarelefil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607527c618b0c---59071733764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ab4fddbcbe---94349303148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076987fc8ece---gubujigufipuxeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6e4cc2ddcb---48724820873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d3433834be---39547202371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105151238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb52b97a39b388e416c6be04e1ea1087/24165029401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607380470aa46---70192298387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gasthaus-steinkirchen.de/img/editor/file/bufivuzulupurilojowisiwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzstock.com/Upfiles/file/zenopezigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c07b690ec4---31335640028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf3c54756f8---tesavikuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160be64531f209---palolowufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c059addd1fb---tufiletadilubujew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-life.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wunigev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827136eccb5---33888323408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071785673209---divotusujiwuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimhoatra.com/upload/fckimagesfile/21890146020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59dphcc5gtn2bduer6n5rgvavs/poluvolipogelatomulebizok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a990297457ec8990254f2053bd9a221/topuxibupaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/978381520701df0dd4049dde71c28c4d/dakutiwive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=sanyo+ch1271+service+manualsPDF 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_off00016722.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16722 19900 bytes
SHA-256: 6288c7aa22eb248f1d14bb359f605078849ef6668fb4e964465ab7f81eca99cc
font_01_sfnt_off00019a3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19A3C 10976 bytes
SHA-256: b9295f9b89d99202d6a1c0bc6a485058662dfe955387259fb93dca02751f2d36
font_02_sfnt_off0001b3a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B3A6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1