Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae842ef4c5d39312…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 20:47:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 73d9ebe031f2d49f2ccbfc2ea7354106 SHA-1: 231d82286562e108efc00acde77c90e494b976a5 SHA-256: ae842ef4c5d393125f77b3dfa937d849e1e4b0e46078fc971eae406ee0a65b82
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138b515853f0---90858211764.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://specialcats.nl/media/files/82595913969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mictrogiang.com/userfiles/files/mesilitobizatawejul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northmarking.com/userfiles/files/49406995235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triatlonshop.cz/userfiles/file/58852038544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cb0975e395---ganexavelewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/dunoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-9-1/20210901120643993496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce0ed8d4719b36dcf5f564dcddfd42f2/68413879811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swapnakoodu.com/fck_uploads/file/53618180566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareu.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuserowegud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29cc79df09da0ad9a62e8bbaec4ac4d3/87528413459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srividyaastrology.com/userfiles/file/bakozusoxifusexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodchambergolf.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xepofujunur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161460d1dbf428---19421314973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01748fbd1d3533b7b7982c2093db7d9c/xipud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://climtech.com/files/files/musegoxavapetolitofobuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikolsbeauty.com/webroot/f/uploads/file/83836785402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614094071bf20---lijadarewisipogiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnt-mayak.ru/content/File/jomewilapepojotanakezud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdwtechnology.com/fckeditor/file/valiferabodukeriwasapata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3eyamaichi.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210907112654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613421578e2bf---zonewejavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=bus+simulator+indonesia+hack+moneyPDF 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_off0000b9cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9CC 15860 bytes
SHA-256: c0da650753e658ec36abd1f3e2ba9c2e91b142a78f6342097fea727c440eb34a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e210.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE210 10992 bytes
SHA-256: b2ec89a1c46bf30d4a2a93e376377be740ab33db2d8ceb6f0564cb499b24f9ff
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1