Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae20e01941a27575…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-10-08 18:58:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 10170b59ef1ee3f2e9cec7462842edc3 SHA-1: cd927c750fcfb1551b1a43ec82b27d457d2d3430 SHA-256: ae20e01941a2757568b19e1a2dd4801f0bdda0cd46a8f10c7d62633465bb0f65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The file's structure and numerous links are consistent with a spearphishing attachment used to lure victims to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=franks+cash+and+carry+grayton PDF link annotation
    • http://test-immo.com/file/fedelupuzozivir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af2f17ec4ee2a362b177767c30ed1c92/61850388223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanmih.com/userfiles/file/20210917015751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artgraf24.pl/userfiles/file/63347416225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.slappedtogether.com/editoruploadfiles/file/34875945443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhongyuemedia.com/filespath/files/20210903080847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videocycling.info/files/file/61418629427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buddhavihara.net/userfiles/file/vuzuwolobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jdconstinc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97283301133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb1083d668ec2415581737ee70881d24/jifopedokujidowokutan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedfightalliance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66071888080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abaj.cz/UserFiles/File/32021765762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16158c83a6a2eb---34033318350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://master-br.ru/img/file/36178560393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dostrojar.sk/UserFiles/file/gutedezokawijagof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhnguyenvn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/kamibuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinical-pain.com/pds/userfiles/files/sedanajirix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jg-academy.com/uploads/FCKeditor/file/9330200411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ihotel2b.com/upfiles/editor/files/tikujovun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thrifty-uy.com/files/others/pulepati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmandarin.com/uploads/kudiradawelavekedipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2pnhd60q6vqrrpiujnqllhg5jq/vumafitewetajadamemolefud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapdonline.org/file/48395339459.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_off0000caa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAA1 10560 bytes
SHA-256: ad96664f5436b959d35811e66f2a2a48f8046fab1b19d7d133da318895ceeb29
font_01_sfnt_off0000e27a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE27A 18360 bytes
SHA-256: cfb38ffb4c52a56a964c44b5f2fd06f83c221f89c1b6df08b3a925048ec43395
font_02_sfnt_off000111ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1