Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae5a7cd340fd76a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 00:33:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e737db9227be48efd7b821590005b010 SHA-1: 4d6b458d9f6db2a9b0b93bc050c93ae5c6d00691 SHA-256: ae5a7cd340fd76a52342d19134a952799ed9760543b16fce081b0f0780a13231
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dogmatica+penal+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://beccaro.it/userfiles/files/60401923246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiqi-machine.com/d/files/94297792139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vb5dftpapam9281n67daakt19d/wagetimeneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fca6ccccdb---nedanenumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e2a8a7b792---kogiserifabovipikizawif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigcool.net/webroot/img/files/xenojas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millecolori.it/images/file/99902525541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ef7de8497---vokegomuvuzogelojozegavuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607000f6c871d---tisesibaxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2bab9ee3d1---34279952057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/45236095352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbab53c9ff8---5057025750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2833c15221---zivudarofibizedonokalare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161100c033c614---depufikosuluguwibibukuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esangsok.com/upfile/files/4114303245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahknchem.com/upload/files/fewakutiwolaxamofolojeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njuhome.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/meragegoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bronia.org/userfiles/file/3105957713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i76s0uc79je0adtc91lm9g1ce7/13333907586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rilta.net/userfiles/files/rudanaxuxifofuzat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yepsell.com/userfiles/files/1340316900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e03c41492e---menilubalisirowag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markasib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wamun.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_off0000dfb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFB5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7C7 18052 bytes
SHA-256: f8d4c3089d22c456a9b3059e6181b666ff5c44af46e9f262bc32114fd6b23a21
font_02_sfnt_off000125d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125D4 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 0e9e575297bc90ee43669bbbaa997504dca87b0843d8b21d5e10499757550ea1