Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae48fc037719e80f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-21 20:04:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 81015c44b4f4fdbd1fdece97d161d5ec SHA-1: d94afd8447db2344ff6b878964936c9b1a3c0007 SHA-256: ae48fc037719e80fb78d2dbc185d46481a5f3db2be5061852af22c161eee9619
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised CMS upload directories. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific intent beyond being a lure. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external links suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

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://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138b114c5fb2---69990145827.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jorkurojus.com/userfiles/file/97714357209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kozhencherrymtc.org/userfiles/file/19298998990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allnatureint.com/userfiles/file/1501161521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dainichiji.com/upload_ckr/files/44340665844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161304128e729e---midowoxujovosodobaxolepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://360clothing.in/home/www360cl/public_html/uploads/images/files/25644596878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsse.hssanesteban.cl/files/rujojudoved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balie.overeembv-profielen.nl/upload/files/lizotutirorita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fnathservices.com/upload/file/89984685247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuyothuyluc.vn/webroot/img/files/78363013078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/xozowarudabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rgn2u.com/userfiles/files/dajugupupafujepalar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a471c686b84d86ded8ce0e1f3000b4f/2850151258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jeevandeepspecialcare.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88325993170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theloneranger.tv/clients/loneranger/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zulutaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferien-in-zahren.de/images/file/48564376145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tskrea.com/userfiles/file/1424851799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alicekhenrylawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bigikez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artemon.nl/userfiles/file/2283361263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rydelko.eu/userfiles/file/94601328673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81271161bcddd390957f7dcb11906665/totufogagilizin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=free+editing+software+without+watermark+for+pcPDF 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_off0000eb89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB89 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001039b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1039B 17436 bytes
SHA-256: a58c9567237d1ffee40a846d38f0d9b6f034b0a6d42159c9152a1ebee09df9a5
font_02_sfnt_off000130bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130BD 11276 bytes
SHA-256: 236fb2735a2d06fb02b02a7b28a24039de0de9be80d08fd83c8c9b01033a7fdb