Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae371eb114565c56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.2 KB Created: 2021-08-14 18:13:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8d26b5af270ab16681dfb428c8cfab49 SHA-1: d260d987780f405553079f50b31d854930c0a36c SHA-256: ae371eb114565c56403a45ad5a3bb5154d616705dcfea180ba7944546e95ce18
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to external PDF files hosted on various domains, some of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lecturas+cortas+para+ni%C3%B1os+pdf+gratis PDF link annotation
    • https://maxflowfans.com/userfiles/file/59602494743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inventory-acepipe.com/images/uploads/files/jazusazegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c1e9e66ff2---247170319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34985908016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bef95404c3d---22913098820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsbcarpet.com/userfiles/file/xoxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knshzj.com/CKEdit/upload/files/sirujiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0683048a0930b5020b3d1990ce9da77d/44788841546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polymer-optix.de/userfiles/file/mevakakuguvadipasiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bimetoor.com/basefile/bimetoorir/files/55032789221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839064f3713---matereporapanew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sntaviator.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/memuvilirusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humble-brag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eucrjc7m18esu6td9fcbk50ck1/tukolud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seeandhearbetter.ie/img/shop//contents/1164562932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lideparts.com/userfiles/file/1620845274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/82689965036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwvictory.com/uploads/files/gavupitoxokud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanarina.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/doregofajewesalax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/51840537580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanoscopy.ru/uploads/files/45828826781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pass38.com/images/contentimages/files/juxemejabixipagenujaxowax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kkt8ad4m87nvi19j2lfv9ckcg4/xemeruzugusaxurajojivurir.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_off00010636.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10636 17836 bytes
SHA-256: 055d9284867901b180ffe4fe4d9419e6a02c5d83eddb6047e78138149116d73b
font_01_sfnt_off0001334f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1334F 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 35d11c753cc11d0c7f729be3f9339e86eea1f4931f738c20651fa3a8b765e2ba
font_02_sfnt_off00014c98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C98 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1