Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae8c4ee50e897492…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-16 17:10:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2117de04584c87615cd0bc2dd7d647d7 SHA-1: f58a6f2fa75f4e306563b22b234198a491f193a6 SHA-256: ae8c4ee50e897492dc0be48eb03a91187ca89a6c50af34f3e80c67e1d53535c4
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The primary attack pattern appears to be redirecting users through these links, likely to phishing pages or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b6c801e9358769242d60998c48c4fe7/buwagi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://avsa.org/sites/default/files/images/files/bimir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fruhmann-elektrotechnik.at/moretuvapibutozubaliga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eed16dcf0a0475c99c88886b176fd8eb/ribusamerep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anneadamslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/80492144892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syuncyoku.jp/upload/file/wekaferudijavivazaxisulot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triyoga-tv.ru/userfiles/file/33070616113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakefruit.com/uploads/files/202109102207589697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vlaamspatientenplatform.be/_plugin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luruziguxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psk.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58379048549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinarioilghirlandaio.it/userfiles/files/50039972633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madinaboys.com/easydo%20v2.00/files/uploads/jabukufekopunakixilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siphonicflowmandiri.com/upload/files/pajulazura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24447cb93da062e4dbac58a0d6069cd4/58507577048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thibangoto.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/57666018992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rtm-plus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82026432346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullgame.hu/uploads/files/gobakeminewijanaluzabob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hometeamcorp.com/images/usr/93777619659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yongchengtech.com/uploads/files/202109041403061582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o79av69abka850ab6c.com/upload/file/202109082128543425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmms-online.com/assets/file/mitufadalidukizewaxuvedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fornacedelia.it/userfiles/files/vimevawin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://odontologosmalca.com/images/userfiles/file/limowazamugogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biogenetec.tw/image/files/20210903_073035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kammatrans.com/userfiles/files/wixovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=rom+for+s7+edgePDF 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_off0000de9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE9A 10292 bytes
SHA-256: ecf6eb5f16a1e9ed071c694209e1ed961fd6ae17b980f3e64526f5b83acaa137
font_01_sfnt_off0000f59a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF59A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010dac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DAC 18212 bytes
SHA-256: f3615d8e5b1e0a9eaa86a7138fa70d2d2a63c0a06892445bdf4b3dd1b431e0f3