Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae1ea09804928cbe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 19:34:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 6c22e05003c23e249df95376a5cdb5eb SHA-1: cc4995ce5f3ed39a018b424881e31d051e7b8148 SHA-256: ae1ea09804928cbe3653db037b5854833d2f156236b31a18867722fd30272942
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=brine+for+pickled+beets PDF link annotation
    • http://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/46377507339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eouoo3sqgv5cutmdnbhasjlubq/3240708229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0fa90bd97c---61873752460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americansummercamps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807a534df8b---1012088828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2f584faa794ef703288a5339c5e2e59/lisaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yocarbroker.com/upload/ckfinder/files/soxedulorew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mis.nrru.ac.th/gradjournal/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sazuximojobij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntsahibfgp.org/hemkunt/userfiles/file/xobutan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairmonteast1978.com/clients/71195/File/xubelap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d3e237fa0c3f110f79567c6b0531946/mamadunere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d8fe3507b---nebupikolejidivozerix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0a73484893653c4f571c8deeb6bb2cf/82509170255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fteq.ru/files/file/68070226483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774907411f3---xukalodubuzijiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhf-china.com/d/files/83627309266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nachtruhe.info/up/files/54174697795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onecre.com/images/content/files/72910344441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikludava.lt/images/files/24117056613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarentcar.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210710_3CA5914DB9F84FA0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.vn/user-/files/jipamibobesigisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialdevices.in/uploads/bujudefazudadakovak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hugslock.com/app/webroot/img/files/zeposesozunoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d438b743d---23724041439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shtaket46.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/faxudajiremejuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/userfiles/files/66321260623.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_off0000c3f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3F9 10736 bytes
SHA-256: cc89ed43a1e31ee97942649603d83d2fc3532252ebdf1fbb96a0a2b6c9cbc046
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC80 16628 bytes
SHA-256: 17d8498476170a510f4a4d7553d067c272ca7f923d2829660b8caf65ad208d7c
font_02_sfnt_off000106cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1