Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae1da14344ea8c73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-10-03 08:51:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ff3a864298c95ae3a59f02f577b70e92 SHA-1: 378f677c0fcadf40fa04ea5e1503c9b647db8507 SHA-256: ae1da14344ea8c73ea8b6c603a39d8a4138893854a699e71fa77c0cc42d8cffd
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to lure victims to external sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=reaction+between+silver+nitrate+and+sodium+chloride PDF link annotation
    • http://starcity-vinhomes.vn/app/webroot/img/files/6641746662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148a86263648---nukebobumagiw.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://smenergy.kr/uploaded/file/1458773521613fada7d380e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khangvietdn.com/uploads/file/suvewokeleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.waetsukai.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75598882238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140dc3c27a54---motipulimutazosilason.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dfd78315ff---4104534319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/pekobamifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaitosushisb.com/uploads/files/94899467623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsaltsj.com/uploads/files/51621543078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usarsenal.it/userfiles/files/ralitokiganopuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krakow4you.pl/krakow/files/tixurolosijoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorrstrechy.cz/UserFiles/File/47260644315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shop-ecobati.com/medias/upload/files/dakibelobuzoximirak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/24114359312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hmtjmdg1teqp24cfqqa83469k3/fuzikubulenurazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70730d4a776c674128507b63078c169c/nagexefagobowugejara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shunnasato.com/tiwunupabufoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-sai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lagad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/vafevuxakuzowajejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614735c4e626d---faropujaxezogosege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biblioteka-belzec.pl/upload/files/42138311990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deitratech.com/userfiles/file/16527942071.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_off0000af37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF37 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 59d9e8171647fd2736da74648b27cdd573fe36b867bf527252c53fea9143404a
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8E4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e0f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0F6 15192 bytes
SHA-256: 7d560490ae5863b52004b94c7e99d3d700dfdea9de2ef943c351421474a9003b