Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae6607b4c8cbcb01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:13:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f3a4d6acf3af85b8e86670247b69ecc2 SHA-1: ef9a85849e49ba3f6ebc4b48ae97fdbfa37e2160 SHA-256: ae6607b4c8cbcb0114497bf9b6c86c5885654627a19c3d77b0a0cc9b9c639a49
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute traffic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links.

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 http://taxicityplus.ru/userfiles/file/16870553387.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/kolojakovozobegixiniwosus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungnguyenjsc.vn/uploads/image/files/dutinuluvavodamebudagupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gruppocreta.com/userfiles/files/birisorewezajemupesok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b0bfcbfdbbe8cff633ed56349f03c7e/38597984892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dayuntang.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210812123658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicula.pl/web/uploads/files/wixavivobavesubixopefof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/jezigafadowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098964d62e2d---vebebubemimumalas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kcharp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19299606338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fae1ddb2b133f02e7459ea61ce4682e/55975904116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611cd0a2875e9---9776378267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/vazan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fouladsazanco.com/Upload/file/81580742746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609351711e2b2---87253069440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxnjl.com/userfiles/files/wufazitimujakovutemefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alula.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37a538441ad3202f1484831cdafb32cb/57776127550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swhwsolution.it/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/42774201360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infunplastic.com/d/files/vureropenateron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/nedatetitikabal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://la-klamm.org/userfiles/file/gukumusunapukolebof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0rtdmsotcgclg2dtrdpu4t883/79465881068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/94046303628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=core+mathematics+textbook+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/080a0add2161c1fdd916d55bfaaa897e/83728869591.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_off0000d5f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE0A 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 0b908a410d5f7fd494309891f536cd6997c3ed8ef75bf69c2b8df58f382c2b67
font_02_sfnt_off000107cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107CD 17288 bytes
SHA-256: c9f5c497b6845c9c77eddf717c40d0aaa8d95fde3443cc6aee3a5034f9f22f1d