Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae33816dad839854…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-24 11:34:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: e42f0e08f5c77a153e2af5045bd01c6a SHA-1: 580ab39729d3b1cff11549e9137a8f2d041dd619 SHA-256: ae33816dad83985464775d0c19a45f3e6b5ab531f8873eca382cc35c0146a070
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of multiple external links on potentially compromised domains points towards a lure for downloading a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://borgopitti.it/userfiles/file/93824978689.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://happyland-nsk.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81291599812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lg-palette.com/upload/files/12422187469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/xuvuseze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viettranslators.com/webroot/img/files/86995457116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafegreenwichvillage.com/uploads/files/78574676234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusheng168.com/uploadfiles/20210920223816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x04ydivan.ru/userfiles/file/98590867537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diennuocdanang.com/uploads/image/files/8072120325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cf337256b2---86304010681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bednidhitraders.com/userfiles/file/lebiguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146961267ecd---92567022684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estatecambodia.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/saxetanuwixubuguxatute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139152774aff---43148497910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/gegorixujizujavogolepogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klaaswester.nl/img/file/80775752849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playitdirect.ca/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/wodimuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/titisetiweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bennett-legal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kemaredopur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rarahil.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17764632316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinaxaraes.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91446309095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekransamara.ru/files/84939439073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/82639011413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbchina.de/upload/jibaxisudog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thriftstorewebsites.net/flash/thriftstorewebsites.net/file/92806454718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=proxifier+for+androidPDF 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_off0000d861.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD861 10140 bytes
SHA-256: a7489bd8099f79ede5059f6ce84677a1b26c59a81d1dc06a6789d4313a5913e2
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF18 18912 bytes
SHA-256: 8ff1b4972861786f557110f1f70effc0ab234be0c347ea2f94335852aad96d55
font_02_sfnt_off00012116.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12116 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1