Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae29f9dce22be5d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 03:54:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 673dbfe73f726164a02cf4d04e01db67 SHA-1: d20caade2cece6a3ff8ab28aaa668107cb8b9a1f SHA-256: ae29f9dce22be5d9381b8e3d56751d788af31e9d53197c62a76bdf05a609efb4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as lures to phishing sites or downloaders for further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0e5e34e518---66957706424.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/jogisoratalipoluzubaziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serpavenger.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xebulokuleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c952a3c0a0aad9e6a6f906e4032253b7/kixogokimodoxidoxapulozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitytradefze.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wowilejafekenumenid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinistudy.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/18232885625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolka-wiercioch.pl/files/file/77767489120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://probeg2000.ru/files/userfiles/files/60245059549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d7c6f296d---3985221875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d7cd67abc---rizerenidirinak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restokrat.info/userfiles/file/xigawukikexigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d57985c5b9b---gomarati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/58152006384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://business-plan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/fosunexokobinunedetiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daonshop.com/files/fckeditor/file/tozabogepatujemolobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d05867546d2---joripikuzalida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6a0c39383a14d8d52dd790d968cd8bc/40480628075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0v0nlcsic5sth43n71q9ror4o/vizeribig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe7ed2b114a---natalez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dbb488848262aec296e5301410a97c4/pogaxemax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odumakus.com/uploads/files/64355823768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/gares.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnyor.az/userfiles/file/bilimosudakijijek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/158ddd6e32a82aa31860333a4074d09f/99094943933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e80be444593---10571856142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=letras+moldes+para+imprimir+pdfPDF 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_off0000b6d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6D0 16844 bytes
SHA-256: 7e7668c56fa014c0729fdfa5d0b58c8ccba2b53e4a6928b3b0879c3c84caadda
font_01_sfnt_off0000e14d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE14D 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 8a3a389ade89a28d8a045ea73f36d70a52be1618116118957d54158e89013315
font_02_sfnt_off0000f932.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF932 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1