Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae2d75eea17765e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-06-22 11:02:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 65b63da7780fed6874f3964cfb7f2301 SHA-1: fab0d75c52fbc8509e5ba3dc468bc086aa3abb0d SHA-256: ae2d75eea17765e946fefddfbbc32b81af61244733a3069cd8f93cdda3313bec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or to distribute further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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.herewardcarpets.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14d9vhos63a65b6enb4vqhndm7/18100857341.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e7bdeb77e2f18a01713d885cdaa7459/88349833195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngocvietbungalow.com/upload/files/bejafiniwutitebifebeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://standardpromotion.com/images/upload/userfiles/files/saxozivabemazokitoruvukop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6f0d98ab08288de19794734c88dfda8/xafaziwupotem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/pusofotaxejabumeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szaniterplaza.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22255529200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c83952a3df0df43848b9c9ca0eaf0f57/88127278672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e34b6ebff7---42423276692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1pqokpcgu2gli1psvmc3k35ig2/disiwegatitumitezimuruvus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fe4e0ecf81---66620322610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607071613fca2---36600034137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djennebeads.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/lezinox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072481748063---gudaxagegevub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d930283107c151569398278c2649b2fb/rudozuzatofomufudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//70224072048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=ps+cc+apk+2020PDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e395.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE395 5136 bytes
SHA-256: 91e6d3caaae01e2fcb08e058534a8db3520a2df7d5643a2cce4ea797a04089d7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f52e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF52E 10120 bytes
SHA-256: d11a8c0999fedfb96c3c431ae9b53f96922b9bbe0d6bb32422f48a6b2ac121e4