PDF malware analysis — malicious · ae0febd329eacf73

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-07-03 19:34:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20

MD5: d625472748452492fe1b23b0ec5a18ba SHA-1: be4540899ff7dae4279311b4f5e80028e1e2ccce SHA-256: ae0febd329eacf73d9dbfb186257e0c7d06569bf2c10b5826b0d1ac5552c3e04

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains numerous links pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, with the numerous links serving as the primary attack vector. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://grodgolf.com/clients/f/fd/fd83fa7079552abb47853a85229f74c1/File/21789679271.pdf In PDF document text
- http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a07e8ab250f---95219660422.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/zuxadojujukiwuralowisugo.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/717199b917d0765321f3794e47308eb6/21305156765.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://huiking.cn/uploads/file/111834136781.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606feb579bdaa---gisutu.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82acae9475ceb16b06e2f3e0e2cef691/12920911486.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://florerialafloresta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/belere.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://m3csrl.com/file/dibotosesagadogonekes.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf7457b59c---fimenuwez.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://jerseyshorepirates.com/userfiles/files/xifelozuvawoko.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6afe38d34cccb72152ed093bb0ab9e13/tavujujudizuzerazedumifa.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0531a549c1---57434691669.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab1879978ef96d70363cd72db1348bdf/83033460421.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/641c793e9a3a74bd7834ba420d8d24ee/5548996730.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608918fedd182---fimovivadubepetuvizeko.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160921ee751b3c---fakig.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://kaptenhoki.info/contents//files/nexubuvulekafovuzogelur.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://travelport.pl/userfiles//file/bogez.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://wagnerpc.com/userfiles/files/tuzifi.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aac82ce5ccd---paletesopezoxobakasajuza.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lgu78ginqruau7i8a5kr2l5u3b/sizepo.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/80034480512.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e1ccce8bd---76490698987.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e007c66513b---tijopufuboge.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=strawberry+basil+compotePDF 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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`font_00_sfnt_off0000f790.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF790	16792 bytes
SHA-256: `9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1`
`font_01_sfnt_off00010fa7.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FA7	10844 bytes
SHA-256: `3e3f8690284f483f06fb1bdea41eed010cc38319d4f3fca82fa77f7188bd106d`
`font_02_sfnt_off00012892.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12892	17552 bytes
SHA-256: `ded8ebdabbcb34a786711e2d8e9a81ac234c6cc700643343d2dba12673744df2`

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