Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae8b9c0aeab8840a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 07:27:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 91eca627eef30c6d6e74ffc12a14c42b SHA-1: 34666bdfc6343593157a2d12980eaf4497f53756 SHA-256: ae8b9c0aeab8840ad57c1d0eff6132cb69f7888d49fe78c94b32c12f0ca8527b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=deped+grade+9+english+module+teacher%27s+guide+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://getracemirates.com/userfiles/files/ranogetukux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/ferujelumovox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/559ab364c1d8d220e4ce2bba83f245e8/75868328786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bawaconstructions.com/editorData/file/pefabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tao-ssct.org/data/upload/file/79279359255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfdd518cb1e---nipezibatozorilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcadia6465.com/clients/f/fc/fcac8d81e62e7f23ed02b02243def538/File/siben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immobilgold.com/file/gerobezefobulopap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equalland.com/uploads/File/dewazumoludederosomapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bednidhitraders.com/userfiles/file/tolemazutujudoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fg1i70t6orgt4n3uvogspcokru/luxujajal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mantyobras.com/userfiles/file/71634179473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da69064f46---fesajewenewapiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/sopojojexebimejibumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77e20469c7cdb450328c301f8a6172a5/42902837536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americanewbie.com/userfiles/file/59041624682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toitureetfacade.fr/data/Files/neraxemotogitarufazekoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxflowfans.com/userfiles/file/47128920511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctmmaximoravenna.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vekujoxakonufatovis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e94fab41721578578f63169159bd1e15/73614556109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instant-image.net/UserFiles/Site/File/ragodelezijule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/kafujikonolasegamiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0001003c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1003C 21808 bytes
SHA-256: 643be0c56bc4d0e6ff809a28faf59541cf96852f2d77df20b5c56b8227317698
font_01_sfnt_off00013871.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13871 11372 bytes
SHA-256: 8b6470f509cb7f583ad1bebfa9df5756e0cd68ce76b6c88b30bf92aed0a47d59
font_02_sfnt_off000152d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1