Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae37762a1d1a8ac6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

142.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 01:51:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 231d7d63414416f0f9e1a69c8488e9c1 SHA-1: 7527e0918ab6273042c55b78c9ad421ffdbaf241 SHA-256: ae37762a1d1a8ac60dd3877bf58079d32ccce292240a9604a860f66f78656d9b
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 0.9913

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=to+be+knighted PDF link annotation
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a750d0b39af---velas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jogamiskolc.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/midajimod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/33036561158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/bapedawesefosebixiraxuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b64de634e94---kafavakebej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszrendeles.hu/files/files/29940543392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/saligaxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermatologomiguelgallego.com/miguel/fck/file/dawusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787cafe219b---ridaduwozigegabemusadajam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bem-sa.com/img/file/80609641601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c63fa1d2b26---39681943708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073bf6351420---29167476663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ae53db2ee1---latezef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/epu9atuevjo122837hl3bhpmo0/ribasovutuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d35b1031c2---33136661924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9duf39sbei6l6felrjbm7eskm6/vudejolopesasabufunaraxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j1medical.com/uploaded/file/ligotifotinomebifowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinshow.org/FCKeditor/file/98075341012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4f99a00b4---videfuxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wulf-sanitaer.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lspf6dr9qq03r4l9vpku0q6se8/6915917021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grodgolf.com/clients/f/fd/fd83fa7079552abb47853a85229f74c1/File/63326588822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8f307a8be---58750628130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c73a6ba09e---tenopamajubamewulaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/lexajovukap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759867c6bad---86916097820.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_off0001c9e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C9E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001e1ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E1FF 10244 bytes
SHA-256: d6554012f5450e59a863404b7265995860bdf438f8ee4cabad0dd726b2e24c2e
font_02_sfnt_off0001f8b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F8B6 21288 bytes
SHA-256: 0b267fde530e56b944f47c9793747f90508cd32eddde721203a0c666ac09d95b

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