Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae2509be76d9afe4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 08:28:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e851d67e1e0f633033a4901b22e42877 SHA-1: 9c33e79db72a0161db93a2433f11cfd561678c63 SHA-256: ae2509be76d9afe4f9c5a6144ff952c229999a196c7559b5c993df06c0b78ec2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to lure users into clicking malicious links, aligning with spearphishing tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://testpensija.bankai.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zepunuzegifejoviw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://club-integra.ru/userfiles/file/wuratokezilefavixowuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e47400f7ce---xatileg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visionbrindes.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/68728353373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n-production.com/upload/fckeditor/file/76791606091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/073a75006cf498324162d4a36daee9cc/29198532069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bvcjijmrjpitogmt3k8a6vc6l8/79666564670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59c1e7e4d39761b1b292505e7b8c7c2e/65573490316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.520amis.com/upload/files/98822682815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1887ac52b2ab1d9d3b3b52504bc1ded/30373637543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b34b9f9274165d9c5d70fe1c9b1590f/93712060503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65ab8ccbcc2c5f82f39325d41f72dc69/21270272226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c84446e043---bugovaregima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oncetrabzon.com/resimler/files/4318647178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be1638a10f4---45455657164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/256tlr9ricq2dvss7tgm8bpfe4/20487987446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwanbim.com/userfiles/files/41411804754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51823008096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b188ab3f960b9777db04b11853512fdd/wuvefinezuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adilaltinsoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836d88395bf---2406971147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611e336e1c406---fozekefekejopavijel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8a74456f88---29853593417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e7e612452c---jogija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787159315b7---xatifevozosesuxewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073233c9de92---16398246946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=cloneralliance+cloner+box+pro+manualPDF 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b9ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d201.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD201 10644 bytes
SHA-256: e8686d5e31c77de8b37bc60aa209dc91d6d99e15f49023e374584fd71a94bfb1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA1F 16172 bytes
SHA-256: dae90d89f74eb33c416fecb5afc4fe9d9acf393cc4e90e93c904182c8fa62140