Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae889a3e63dcc168…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 03:58:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 976931cba7979af25af841a6480f9e3c SHA-1: 65bbf534d34a823ae03d57586e6dc2507709d2c1 SHA-256: ae889a3e63dcc1681b6b3247d05a048ef87f98e6e46cd181c2d1dce22f7b4912
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites hosting further PDF files. These links are designed to obscure the true destination and likely serve as a distribution mechanism for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ubestsports.com/imager/files/20210616143809.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://esrafisek.com/images_upload/files/vazaxoteparuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109b06f5e2fb---99384229495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9b071e0887---98148906528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidrealestate.com/public_html/userfiles/file/84335644063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/puzositovexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschaden.expert/userfiles/file/69180859908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7768d31db7e586c340a9e2f6d8178a7/21925911748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ekoldnupbma302g9uet6075p46/30311138645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chaplains-camps.org/upload_picture/file/safakefapepuweja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9686f0fa7---lofavikixijavete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f7c5fb832b1a9e123901d58fda73abd/wapulibatajeforewikadeweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e10f4c5bba565ebad8b16fc0165cf9d2/mesupovijederawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wchs67.com/clients/f/fd/fd50fd9748f3592dabdfdad26f378f15/File/jokekituxuzitituzewupene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicapoland.pl/uploaded/file/sidolumirinabilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/094f5a1330605a8d95d44dbd2ea24af5/7938274250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8a33854029---rinixuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defaico.com/d/files/68098039648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75e04c71d434b0643d367942e5d8f1c2/majuromawabur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propertiproperty.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/11975354175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangkoksolarpower.com/syner_upload/images/files/jemijubudijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f32b74d0f7---bixuketeliruvipofetuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prime-standard.com/piceditor/file/vagizaduxopemoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l1fdnvbt58m2avpffs7tfa6gq3/vokonaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=nefrologia+clinica+hernando+4ta+edicion+pdf+gratisPDF 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_off0000e87f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE87F 18524 bytes
SHA-256: f5eea1e5c598c0da69b6c704d9d7e5c862103361ca3495a6db07917a012ffd95
font_01_sfnt_off0001188c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1188C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000130a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130A3 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 2e248b9c54da98fd4c62c69f00ec48d2c5e85bbf9b397b015316b1d8c7d726ce