Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae0c74c0dc789dc9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 14:29:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 6b63ee13ddcc34a19225b8b3bcc54ab5 SHA-1: 510c50df8ee6b52f06b36e3a9cfd0431f85991de SHA-256: ae0c74c0dc789dc9ef0e7266037e57930f45a634c36118ca9b574c2eb119c3aa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9918

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 https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uokn1cbe0sdd9g91f59jph2au2/xuduv.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da68s0ghuttccnrc5o2t4dgb45/52929954449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renknh.com/ckupload/files/podonuxovamuzutanosim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.odnpoznan.pl/fotki/file/file/18096187367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongchangkj.com/uploadfile/file///2021082107233256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsegypt.com/file/79760064884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5fc4779e7---69220014341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9b3520178---gigodoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121868b2d9e3---gezusefemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8193abf7b5038f24ddb19d2f3b553f90/netovafatalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160800d494f2e8---20349043357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fff3a0a4387---43852749670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5248a11dbb---mepomafetirofamixexabane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmatik.com/uploads/file/68268000086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8223db05befbbb42d32103d2dfb63551/91833028983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetamblj.si/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zegatara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885a05cbb05---42794986814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theurbanbazzaar.com/userfiles/file/rafum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hdab629nhnb03enqqe6rsrm3j4/rizigilisokixexafuteko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idd.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/diloretixanudukolad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanga.asia/userData/board/file/78436182025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doyen.cc/images/upload/File/surigulefijega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roxburyhs1987.com/clients/63080/File/wepajiporifolixewovowobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fae51f4dd3045151bb650409d7ba2521/ritex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grifin.sk/files/90856467616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=building+materials+and+construction+notes+pdf+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f7e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7E4 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 714c2175ba92985676d94fba8f99285cca48c48a09c176d499a5c36773461310
font_01_sfnt_off000111f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A06 18332 bytes
SHA-256: 1ce2f0a8ca811810e9fab4d6c481ef233df9a4a95b4fae2d38aff2df09b2d014
font_03_sfnt_off00015977.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15977 16616 bytes
SHA-256: 06f1d5f5a9083a80364da0885936c8ddb2848b41a67694407b5e75bff462a068