Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae2598c5ec6f9271…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB Created: 2021-07-25 05:42:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 9bdcb233280b5bd2ecf008511bc079e9 SHA-1: a894f3a7b0ed7badd2ddd09b786484f7b68bf5ec SHA-256: ae2598c5ec6f9271554067aa2665a81f8192a5cd873faace80dcf2a0ebab3694
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting domains, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to exploiting users who click these links.

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 http://nordicaluminium.ru/userfiles/file/64913706021.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6gehascq962jfq7lk3qn3jrd4l/lajuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860b8a696ba---zevurudonewuwevemenuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095e09cbdaa5---nofadowikuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebornfair.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210623_196FA8B48752B4CF.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608445ad72555---92314487027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/58433846001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c464fe2a61c---xatukukipaxalop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-dcc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g75p2moe4hbl4f4tl9lmbo42qd/12005780838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/718e5ef5f538e44f1a79ff736ada6272/xijixifulitimemezomaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netshopnepal.com/userfiles/file/39465578757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l3rv76gqqtpm5ok0vtnna57nhs/basexozojiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dintek.eu/uploads/file/fedamidep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c71c8e665df---peduzuripowinegene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fffc49b17b---82728602162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/91703307097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c28e485762b---gofosebulena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca767113bc3---janefawasexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/726bd58f21e01ec761ed65e2cf4bc1ad/nipepizafox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a147f0a6fd4---33666112648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0eaebb17d7c6e1101933c56d96b9919b/podop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juha.be/_files/file/19629257856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/86170565123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=oleo+essencial+de+lavanda+beneficiosPDF 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_off00010308.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10308 10500 bytes
SHA-256: 5dfb89e94f545d0188bd8a3b0b992f6d1959e04cfef299c54bc984a2a67499c1
font_01_sfnt_off00011b13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B13 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013325.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13325 19804 bytes
SHA-256: 6104fdbd25d210bf1d066ceee944cc1d03011e45d26d792a864667a87061307b