Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae272ce4457028a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:42:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: a5372543ecf16db3d219bc7e462fe7f3 SHA-1: cfd623f2dc24409d1e26b0695506beef1c8f9011 SHA-256: ae272ce4457028a3bbb30572e547e03b7e65d3561b56787ca4bc4a986b260f5c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or SEO-based malicious distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://gad-elhak.com/userfiles/file/83291998.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.prieteniitehnicii.ro/documente/file/53172076350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab112344b5f---nesejasowozijudubef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c0672847af---13615544433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kerama.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87438120701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8be29878d---sutuxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marathon-gexin.com/Uploadfiles/files/87330169253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camel-republic.com/media/userfiles/files/21593957960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/9236104312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isagenixmakessense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kusodoxinugaruluzax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf6aba241c9---reremufileneke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/050s7lrsaepknbjf3i745vul20/32021801301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dcd45474b4---wiviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae07c7c955---81461408487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cravaluos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9321258556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f98c9ab7a5138bea5d882caf6e2aa42/77957074985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021060722230016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokozentrale.de/idata/laxukawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korealabels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/231963726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swiss-ex.com/62368016315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59e8ecf91be920bf8ba93d11a78b8156/nimub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatfailogistics.com/fckeditor/files/file/40880304511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leanuslab.com/UserFiles/file/rapolosirosijapiduka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=saunders+cervical+home+traction+device+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_off0000c5c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5C9 17372 bytes
SHA-256: 29fba3da4e38ba84b8ae0a48222ebd433c96a58ee16430c6e4a3a81b90c0a7e0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2B4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010acb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ACB 10876 bytes
SHA-256: d903ba224d986430720347aacbfae13083d45f18acb5aa9150190fc6d523e93a