Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae7df36d85ce859f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 17:43:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b016a5d26b0b58533b727ec49df48545 SHA-1: de207aa96ac74d53a8cadcb5a1a041b706f6033a SHA-256: ae7df36d85ce859f036dbad82fd7132074f169cf212a8451d9dcc45198c2af65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous unknown URLs, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics indicates a deliberate effort to obscure the final destination and potentially evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://gldbirdgel.com/user_img/files/50548453997.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aydinservis.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/giriwimopazisukazaxojaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161318a5846cee---66624018218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kkagro.com/media/images/upload/file/79522999352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikkedua.com/contents/files/29597658291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ec169178a9---70778825976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danieldesignpro.com/userfiles/13635440302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161356d24b33f6---rotizoragexoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sm.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/parakuzofemitugevedajepad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e46c82d44e---mafamutuzinagusarumoritiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walterchiropracticclinic.com/home/walter/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9518505527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sofahatinh.com/upload/files/6404677551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.esfa.bg/root/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mezofuvog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://top-rubber.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/30023809851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8004909b56e01525b0253b13f3b930fa/32710514494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbanoilandgas.com/file/files/34532345970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e234ad63ca7b2c5530f2e994d241a30c/2664171648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogologistics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67795313988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fli.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58412504405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161350b69270f0---96928113070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/ropixexojoxanamojog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flairpens.ru/uploads/files/wumexog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samnakthodrahassob.com/userfiles/file/93228031797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avs-market.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/badaluzad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=switching+from+android+to+iphone+reviewPDF 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_off0000dc55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC55 11080 bytes
SHA-256: 8f1f54a956e7dc328e387f63cd62d31fb96c485f75844ce6388363d5fee760d3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5DB 17192 bytes
SHA-256: eaac4919cd1b5af856438e758d723af29c8ea225ea8980f45b153239bd03c902
font_02_sfnt_off0001223c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1223C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1