Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae05866ed8e72aba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 17:28:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 57c7474574b27fcc68438f19b1cf2139 SHA-1: fe2bd0171655ce067f9de7f622b40d430434ccc4 SHA-256: ae05866ed8e72abaf575037783a44ddb7d95ed4a131a7ef849daefd67e698a32
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=there+was+there+were+affirmative+exercises+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4efe3cfe9---13146097697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7bba6cdc37b01843da5befc0d438cc6/65676544570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://booklandbooks.com/userfiles/file/55224261263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gensugroup.com/upload/files/gakozexugazizoxesigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/39894633199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c26d3e97e6b---46194164990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somersetcountybar.org/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/72781021490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/70390803354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/16083f85c3b6a8---notumifoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruxthai-guesthouse-chiangmai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48326943021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhachoxebus.com/upload/fck/file/32720281960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05rpi602ot0o5ncu0s1k9565ep/47655324360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sziszolg.hu/editor_up/jajoxokesodiboxifipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luligang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82029561083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bygreenpure.com/userfiles/file/kulipamadirozala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/lufov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/fisolasezuledi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-market.ru/sadm_files/pudajuxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.gr/uploads/File/wobefepavos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3fae4ed8545b99199bc878b3853be6d/xagegedawitamufokezof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3fe681677f---64638920006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superchills.com/userfiles/file/1613703265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e45deadcbf41fbe4f6d6fd6840254741/70589081199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607377054023f---kodijogigukuxeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6f22bc8de1---86023115070.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_off0000b52d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB52D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD44 10832 bytes
SHA-256: f6a908ea2060a12ae333c2bec46a4d4f4a0ad89cc4f158918a3c2109bab3c2a7
font_02_sfnt_off0000e660.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE660 14532 bytes
SHA-256: 7520d93b4a0c71a6ebb0db63c784a0f59720fd49f0633f9162dae6abf1b9bd22