Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae216c1c5bdb3451…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-08 13:50:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: d1567465004f4641096f2c77f0b31a06 SHA-1: 9e964eb75ca6d2722ae2cf456721dff13f6f214e SHA-256: ae216c1c5bdb345151d1743d7f81e3356021ebd7a94f4e2eec918f55ad3d3a62
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apprendre+ecrire+alphabet+francais+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134385ebd813---rejowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ues-rb.ru/themes/ues-rb.ru/files/puturarun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursakaynak.net/userfiles/file/bosizunupovekikizeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoletiziamasciotta.eu/userfiles/files/noguxigasizaluliwineva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tele-video.ru/upload/files/93989082458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zerling.eu/nico/images/files/supuzaviwanap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profil-metall.de/content/uploads/file/42543191151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andreivieru.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mitosodogakorogegikanale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xetaihyundai.net/upload/files/tagapibaguvidawadodoliru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewhamd.net/upFiles/ckeditor/files/morabidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bimstudioinc.com/media/files/zadolufoxenanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2o2b17g32e8xisqq.com/userData/board/file/85596019148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135a0b3bbcd8---lesamofufejorogerosane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhouzhuanx.com/v15/Upload/file/202193752553026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logiccpacma.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87046416749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613443ffbb6e1---xakodasaxuwipilovidiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karelo.com/uploads/File/tobijonezabulaxovuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.com/contents/files/87118548592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clic-essc.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92347944509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gima.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24959500737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chinese-wall.tw/upload/files/2376542299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elistaprezentow.pl/userfiles/file/99055410042.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_off0000d242.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD242 20040 bytes
SHA-256: 8aaadb49e35ecf693b79bb91d63bac879aac7e9711c1ef6ae66395e107718781
font_01_sfnt_off00010588.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10588 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D9F 10716 bytes
SHA-256: a43093b7749fcb44d6e11385e17610c4862f855133c67a400ff86b1c127e1aae