Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae6e289749723ea5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-17 09:13:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 1856dadf0904c5dace317f98f3ce96cc SHA-1: ab4b0351b5c576d11c2c1ecd162acbe3880e1e9f SHA-256: ae6e289749723ea5cd8f85e79fb866a91fd9791a59823d60eb076cc60a1a24b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or facilitate phishing. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2f619aca09---231215507.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fotossc.pl/_files/file/87062998480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceraunavoltapizzeria.it/userfiles/files/11324213770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyvenus.it/userfiles/files/gemota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///60474067903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubaimotorcycletours.com/uploaded_images/files/garikepuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3825a2cadc---mevedudovamepalivodexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erisalaw-chicago.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/70175694822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imotrading.com/images/userfiles/xatusukekubopafojubikidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4b99dd6db5---vujaxesexugavudigegeroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/43885046330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b21af72c9e5---dugulepudavusaxaxarip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099b33496f2b---43736630947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://streathamtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/naxitemurag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanuyentea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76297945549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dukra.sk/editor_uploads/files/15969187106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c21e79bec0---dukobevutaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/295uau133d55sa5ine1bg9vb76/tegukodataromikuvetojikap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1vtmfq2fd011o5t0ka54p315q3/ditodosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f5e3a38c6---tegisowanifoniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8dc140ea50---5380039822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/19843919007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conberraquera.com/aym_image/files/10435987914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansatrans.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80386596246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dta8ppo438jpue33qmgtkrt0ao/67220600492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/wetamisaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=standard+input+and+output+in+linuxPDF 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_off0000ea39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA39 17660 bytes
SHA-256: 10aa265949fc93c40e7e70af66bdba78370c5676c02e3d81565f1d46b9c79cfe
font_01_sfnt_off000118fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118FA 10364 bytes
SHA-256: bb81da1c86a1cfee74856581ffbe202862f0b5ea93a53eb86ff2e8d2798bde67
font_02_sfnt_off00013072.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13072 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1