Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae8bbff456a5c43d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:00:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: dc1df7ff9fdfbc301836636a49595d33 SHA-1: 464da0c78ca38c6bef87f7b852735ae63e5d8af9 SHA-256: ae8bbff456a5c43dbec4ff2178664157bf84ae1a8ac9d35b2559104d4a5b7b29
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards the document being used to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=taxonomia+de+bloom+verbos+objetivos+generales+y+especificos+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3797b6fa456369e8b5f7162993ec37b1/37127032226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607657a7f3558---31977642835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3drm.bg/uploads/pictures/files/zajarujatowila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080648ab2b64---77981317652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elverum-revmatiker.no/images/file/50574519053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvocato-callegaro.it/public/file/paboriberafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8e4db4cdd8---8720323169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bethelhanberryaaa.com/clients/2/24/2465ef4bb9bb1b7382310ae17d7cafeb/File/5292721211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur2.com/contents//files/68735390730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fv9c8bs91b5oo30qlcuqmddk6/gamejumezel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bca54d29063---14752270683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f48a6baec5---81218796907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6b5b1bffe32950a03c74fdb220f447b/37445117794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb4a6dc528e8cad3a3a8b4ac8e0a4180/tewawalasitetorux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angel-juicer.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210827_A7BD6E3EB281046B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suarezbeltran.com/aym_images/files/boberunig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainescentreasia.com/images/file/jopapuvof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770e35bbc20---murupof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ffe42c3418b---86810834042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victorybear-info.com/userfiles/files/95292878808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765c2d8e647---87550252444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab793f8c516---44207735050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baobihungphu.com/media/ftp/file/36540513095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eac3680123---vaditex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cisseo.net/userfiles/files/7712126901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/47577800399.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_off0000d878.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD878 18196 bytes
SHA-256: d2275d5a90685abb5525eac6a735ea861ba876053159f6d13c299e086f4f815c
font_01_sfnt_off0001067a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1067A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E91 11476 bytes
SHA-256: c925f7fce920fad2704f81dfb0f572fde9f5e01f1c6a79b7a1f921ecb537412d