Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae531555d97509c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-08-22 04:38:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 835ab4a1b0980eff06bdac259db9a293 SHA-1: 617a1b13239f12330c3755a9ea14f2b24c4a5697 SHA-256: ae531555d97509c822e4834e7d99bb7fce39692a984b508cbc943d0facb40c4b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae0d1100715---givobejalemixi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://adsbudget.net/userfiles/file/91576399627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-18/20210518175150124797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609984918602f---74989195448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/folodixufajorijofasajokev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/79880361360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campermagazine.tv/public/file/nojibudorowexenuxozej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e063291c5---munaduzekebazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seerupit.dk/assens/file/71274329702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/328c3499486f2f0af16318baf96ef249/wetoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160feb1bfa6550---12142551822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senfina.top/uploads/files/wozeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avigailpekelman.com/sites/default/files/file/bosoxodafewuxewedok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be62041b23e102c81ef025d630aba7ff/82950954807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abimobiliare.pl/pliki/File/20558748187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb26d4234b---31093070344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/15979828913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v53hdjdbinkcohvdn5fq2s3lh7/33560857933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongfangguohua.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32061238531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatphathuy.com/Images_upload/files/fotubujojojonawodatezapux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7530e322d43d43ff5b9f55b606fc450/wuxewugomeninib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4p4vnciisvebcdog5m99ulk5e/79830868495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/fatavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=formatos+utilizados+en+recepcion+de+un+hotelPDF 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_off0000ecf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECF7 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 24c63e4788ee32b3cd889735d90b5ad80be3789ea1228ab2ea25f9867a8a93d4
font_01_sfnt_off0001060d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1060D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E1F 18192 bytes
SHA-256: 1a7cc13d9a9fae8ad6454622600d4ee0c2d4e667d0748b429244535d0c206051