Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae33dfc34c790b62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-14 03:05:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 528b4cae1e30529142a3f1e370f135f7 SHA-1: ea6b7e428c21f9dfc65b38fa264eb8e6a18cdec2 SHA-256: ae33dfc34c790b627d466b5ca1791eb603c729c1644253a9aafad50d6670cea6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eifls5obaqvc3d75e6l3vng12a/tewileg.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bqr2a74gme5gamenj55g34jtv2/munidemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnc2.com/userfiles/file/97614368488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae704ca0941---xidapoguxoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butchercurnow.com/img/shop//contents/bejekazogujuzagupif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldresold.com/Shradhdha-Mehra/soldresold/final/ckeditorimage/files/66188890255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-8/20210508173025674353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c40b169afe---63699018693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6e3ebdf618f9c28e39c3e308a8f216d/17941781374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dfjunmk9d7beipmkuo1r8bsvk/89676626833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kath-kiga-bw.de/bilder/berichte/file/18096181735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b41de335562---vawakikiwekipidolage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/90094529074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29415b35eaa2e3a8e11507d5759493a2/kezexinemozisevudibupexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d854a9d68b071a6fb60b9e914fc66b2/mopasebavufevefoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkyoukais.com/Images/Media/files/156657189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkinshigh1988.com/clients/75739/File/pofabexunabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/862a6bde3a05a838beb35b8788a7c5f2/47335134805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d8beca241---60599349216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61099ae0fd354179e81898559d4e5a9b/71556129823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609485477f54a---mumegodaninenijojitub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuraniterbiye.com/resimler/files/kofigifonejafadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=measuring+and+cutting+stair+stringersPDF 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_off0000ecf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECF0 18924 bytes
SHA-256: 14181217b7e6ac6657ca45ce7b2c678c2770d64a7c3ef22cb7ab98fc9ce46926
font_01_sfnt_off00011d9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D9D 10472 bytes
SHA-256: a11d566c40f5cf173d08401c00eff33d0850b2a34153e4733613e4a86d47c8af
font_02_sfnt_off00013551.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13551 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1