Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae7f55805de4f83c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-08-30 20:27:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b349af9223e625c579c82dd28fe7e17a SHA-1: a95f6e67a7cbcdc0f3124afc1c192fc3501212a6 SHA-256: ae7f55805de4f83c29fbc500035b3ebe2fa0df1b273b94145d29fe79fed3f75c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the PDF structure are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f332d9efd1d6862540aec96b4218875d/vusezofagutevopot.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://trunglamdecor.com/uploads/userfiles/file/pinudidafowilitesigewol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoteam.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22998455190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fresh-cherries.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17876631769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083768fc8668---79589540564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vahuj6fs45omk2l050dln0l0t7/ludapulijat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2e1944cb0b45c4dc007cf4010bc9b6f/fedejizinukokuselon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://torgoborud.org/images/file/mimisusad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highrise.pl/file/zafezerutelixivunozuwok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gertiesbloomers.com/kousumi/nulook/upload/fckimages/file/31319589497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.fr/userfiles/file/54096106084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bf0124da06---2858469022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progettarecasa.com/userfiles/files/jegijesimemapigedevevar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/42223399293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--q20b13r9leepaeb.net/upload/file/202108280504172411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bea48733ab1---2897977975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bee2d6141a---29491770480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunjewelsonline.com/userfiles/file/nerokubis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161237eac0cdaa---21508028132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoltysnieg.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/fujosixajabamem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cbb95080ff7850b28654e777157ad8a/16005904495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kusadasidentalclinic.com/img/userfiles/files/416300885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reparation-mobile.net/userfiles/file/fudupujizepumiwotiworade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianklein.eu/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xogudenabeziluma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=tedious+meaning+in+teluguPDF 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_off0000d549.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD549 21792 bytes
SHA-256: eb773275cc50a0e6abde3bda23cd97236676d387ad79d9b7352c0a7dd81abb66
font_01_sfnt_off00010d86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D86 10552 bytes
SHA-256: a0a2f13ef15215bfb89c6faac95892d5ea1170f0d2303b61665f0be5d1497da0
font_02_sfnt_off0001255c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1255C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1