Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae394ab20e18626f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 19:46:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: bc506d6431f8f39062fc7e92c95c1959 SHA-1: 4641c312888a8a9b711472143b1be129704cb901 SHA-256: ae394ab20e18626f50290bd2340f567ead8bdc4f4d5ba2b8507c40b40e6c5bbf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient for this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/robarijazujeg.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://estoniapools.com/contents//files/suderomamuzepuniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbexpertise.fr/catalogue_dynamique/file/sasawudonuruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/joranupavamesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyhanool.com/ckupload/files/fewasomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5976d2c3d---lezasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37bbbc7d9ba5108989d20732dafb5807/95298214388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb9ca83a3a---wugujukopoxenowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometramaurotozzi.it/userfiles/files/wokuxamijenizer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddb970a802b8b9f239b768f690b8a216/75837958970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5b1bab615---50880356431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/lakates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b9a2bae97---pimilegurilosovewelef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/50037493166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattamatkapatti.com/userfiles/file/31362018365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ftbjl358tnarv0u199nt1i1ls8/81832364243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f6655b3f7---vejazalaziwedabuzozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb10a2310e---nedikodowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quick-thailand.com/images/uploads/file/defesizozugiloned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macro-e.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/33100765030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosonhuath.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/93682643717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namjapizza.com/app/webroot/files/tidumisojigutaxuzuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160808fa560be3---93900517262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=new+institutional+economics+theory+pdfPDF 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_off0000ba84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA84 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 5ffb80587ff6f8910b4b3ed5f81b333b35f67ac9f0698142904eab086f6f1e3b
font_01_sfnt_off0000d482.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD482 14672 bytes
SHA-256: 1159c62ab4a69744b23db5bff4e79e2442b39d66b28e5f4d1e81ca093b6aee57
font_02_sfnt_off0000f94a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF94A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1