Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae2d37c1377eae54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-10-03 07:00:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 87ecc8a4ee96ad4fd8eada2df92d2514 SHA-1: 4a2075e531abc6a47aeb3b14da2c88143c4d6246 SHA-256: ae2d37c1377eae54138ddb7a71c3090f734968888794a288844620c59c5e456b
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=human+resource+strategy+adapting+to+the+age+of+globalization PDF link annotation
    • http://jiin-torng.com/uploadfiles/20210925003116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csmgh.net/pevron/www/img/file/76502063743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chambredhotes-savoie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11771916142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/190908310ea976d039c6c7787c480264/laseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/sominazebegut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garage-fuji.jp/js/upload/files/gumajokufajasedezifozul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emachn.com/data/attachment/file/41934650146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sooam.com/files/fckeditor/file/1838933748613e6eef7047c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/31381756832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentistvanpatika.hu/upload/file/dijapoginapuvavola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1o9o72m5pp1erjvkocu4ofaqu0/lujimov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundacjaartfreeart.pl/userfiles/file/duluposubidametowasifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e599517878---kosipamaleturefebola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinaktv.com/storage/ckfinder/files/wisav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d83id1hctmtkca6clojff5nek1/jebovamadejuleponimaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editora-arara-azul.com.br/site/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72274629778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romengo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58002506144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pointerboards.com/uploads/admin/files/60675014499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apple888.vn/luutru/files/jetireka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lingchuanfloor.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/nugeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imobiliariaimperio.com/files/files/72233466043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07809b102dfa26252737aabdabcea52c/31016761872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena-reutlingen.de/eros/userfiles/file/wimagawupapisimazafogisax.pdfIn 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://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_off0000b338.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB338 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB4F 11472 bytes
SHA-256: a50d671c015882dde5c98b2a7601f054b9ef80c92e0eacdb52bab3ddd1b77efb
font_02_sfnt_off0000e5cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5CB 16904 bytes
SHA-256: f8bad9c565865c83b8bad978d76615d97385dd035eebe1f64779a01079e258b5