Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae4fd835600a5663…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-08-16 02:08:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ffeb24cf1b6c53584adaa7b4462d2a96 SHA-1: 85f01f9c4bf6df466da5bb385caec8b2a9efc678 SHA-256: ae4fd835600a5663aa2827dcb3e1921ad631a7d15043553a642f8692e6172fee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites using vulnerable plugins like Formcraft and Super Forms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of numerous links on disposable or compromised hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or to leverage existing vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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 http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6a2c37d653---sulutobepuxufufog.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dbhsreunion.com/clients/21010/File/93416352678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/padapurudesiloboruwip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddbe1a05bbf5962436fc486f05b1e599/39833177956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088322fe38cd---rezowuxozifagavupik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bda.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22039013459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rv5bp8f0f6mn1iu8i7afjenr2q/42433461507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c37ccf59539---85823488877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colafranceschi.it/userfiles/files/jofanoluwinovewowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d07f8f5a9eca491a9de362c2429248fa/kunutidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.teaterskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nimakajesuxika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chieusangducphat.com/uploads/userfiles/file/80715513575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lideparts.com/userfiles/file/1626517751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesterek.net/tmp/97531032229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160920805955dc---tenase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607beed4415a2---zevukibigox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukrarnakolbaba.eu/obrazky/files/poxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.haztartasigepszakuzlet.hu/pics/file/85955885275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd6e2821763---regemubilug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3b6f8924ab09f8d82619358a00c50ab/76643134557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87ptkh66oriojqt9hv7ju02q5a/pafavilekufaxafikodedifod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d06935d18---42096419305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a8b10f12e8---mozekutilanosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nimir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibb-online.ru/f/file/69583254629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=informative+essay+format+examplePDF 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_off00010451.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10451 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011c68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C68 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 99c659ee79cea30aa2b4adae511f697f188f4bf718383dcbba5c1557b51fc36d
font_02_sfnt_off00013529.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13529 16620 bytes
SHA-256: 07f6dcfb592d27b6e2061131cb8e9f2d0342af39879d0e2c3064ab56a3d68a20