Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae8c3b2a81419591…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 13:18:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a9fb105757ea6411ebf82f3eb6aec278 SHA-1: 35b6e8f7967f9f53a35ab6a445a17c5a0abf8d34 SHA-256: ae8c3b2a81419591c3440fc626c887fb0afcb81e9418911238eb951400bdd4df
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to act as a link farm, likely to distribute malware or phish for credentials. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://lahma.pl/_u/userfiles/file/71673164958.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f073a30cd5---79209824711.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/ranexulaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06f83cdc1aef6954054517e408bc69b5/1884536199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tablica-nieruchomosci.pl/uploades/fckeditorfile/13726525425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3898boetkjf0cda14e9g7f2i77/15059395117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroisvias.ru/userfiles/file/buxujas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanleyresources.com/images/1571450072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenornaments.com/uplds/file/2530458694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kesherisrael.com/uploadEditor/files/56082317084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0286869143.com/editor_images/files/rovawuzobifevovux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coffee33.ru/archive/file/pifulumigugaripizemadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerdynamic.com/clients/3/3d/3d9dba0a3645e5854abf1db7654b9c86/File/96944626083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608153b8d14dc---86113905181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe957bdc6783da1e707009e9d305e44f/wiwasuxanisefote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5054bc5c1b2017c14c5e224009f65e93/58570120168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zekidilektekstil.com/images_upload/files/78612843353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109809cba0a4---somefokubitosebozexasodil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tndgdemo2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pegipirizago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canevinclassof70.com/clients/6/6b/6b8b8ee0d314e59372afbcb75100d768/File/81612302343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-ookuma.com/js/upload/files/rinesaxitixog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltagroup.bg/uploads/file/24193073170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbamedica.org/userfiles/files/bisigazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=beretta+87+cheetah+owners+manualPDF 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_off0000b863.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB863 16612 bytes
SHA-256: c4a2b3495c8db763faa671226d3b162fc9e7bdc75df4dcbe106a2b01f0750da3
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3A0 10900 bytes
SHA-256: b885b5d31a70cf7cf48924c652ea80fec5a2b5f62f8c625548970a4dbbc9fb0a
font_02_sfnt_off0000fce3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCE3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1