Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae279e0efc2cf38f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-06-11 02:26:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6e7d7a138b1ed77fa6c640ddf94a6b5c SHA-1: 290f0b6d27f618a1c3f7a01364fb7d53d648671a SHA-256: ae279e0efc2cf38f995f95a70532a7596f4cf43be5c1be0934e450c856df1298
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tintin+au+congo+1931+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://barcelonacentremedic.cat/files/galeria/files/11374394329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a06fc45f945---14684771513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixmyhelicopter.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/velukexotuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c88610b7d0---kidisan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/xokik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djennebeads.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/74691054491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/tukanejuwolabifonuvito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad7b8da4d7---jovodubikavorojezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f26096a35be4e6d639093f392435beb/67382628253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exclusivelimoservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42365902242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160893f182a60e---duguwewujegebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6b7f0a161---13968121979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g135jpmkpbiupodl576m5o9kdt/xolixasabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbd233c40c5---lezujuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1febec2d2b---94678181056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stillwaiting.org/userfiles/file/22266999005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011ec5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EC5 1696 bytes
SHA-256: c80b935bb2e72fbf0bb54bead4dcf673e2ee9ff5a06d35ab91e29c0786333a85
font_01_sfnt_off000126ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126EF 5336 bytes
SHA-256: 473fede8033b63222ac24c35d3913a8d20113127f85f8611cb5f1e6d46068432
font_02_sfnt_off00013933.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13933 12344 bytes
SHA-256: 01462083d615ceeb09bd54aa942a3e12f89ebb021eaf97ceff52823aed778351