Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae7f656122ae9f54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.6 KB Created: 2021-07-22 18:37:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: dbc01add23b94b3b313f4e724690b633 SHA-1: 4f75d6800b6fc604d23c62b16157b78231ddd43f SHA-256: ae7f656122ae9f540e546507510844cb5b8208f5edb11d9f9e25dd113b619b0f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to PDF files hosted on various websites. Several heuristics indicate this is a link farm, with some links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution through these linked documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/vavaxojus.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://blessedfamilycovenant.org/clients/c/cb/cb727bc273eb4203dc66fb73741ae5ae/File/7020143755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/282f9084c9a988d8e7dd777fabc2fe7b/51576185524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geteffective.biz/uploadfiles/file/62221319894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879227a03c0---2223303360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d7f4144c81---pitivaloruri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kammerpop.de/files/file/bixewuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bo7mto3rnnkvf31iinu6qvc502/10364687931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/709342b8783a690fde83628754441ae9/pifiluvuzava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad32e8a7063---pejovinixoxuwofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhodeislandalpha.com/clients/56223/File/kebojemapuzad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91d896d43866c3fda9002aff9b81229a/gibijofulegokazebak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d07ca113789---bozuwemujekoluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahamit.net/userfiles/file/13259747996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160819528c23ff---92134906865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minegociomiweb.com/userfiles/file/64127563670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/laxasajerafebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://norilskgu.ru/userfiles/file/84662868462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkinshigh1988.com/clients/75739/File/jetidiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riph.pl/userfiles/file/vonade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/87161534670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogiovannone.com/userfiles/files/21262045690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=if+you+multiply+the+gcf+of+30+and+24+by+the+lcm+of+9+27+and+30+the+product+will+bePDF 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_off000167ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x167EF 17584 bytes
SHA-256: 85a20e2abcac5840fc4ada0a91539a2123afcc3f986dda26294713921fd8751c
font_01_sfnt_off00019620.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19620 12000 bytes
SHA-256: 9d24b6e89ed4e1e02d0427ede6a9479c9d64575e042b9fd022a5a5a102830155
font_02_sfnt_off0001b294.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B294 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1