Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae8d44cd9b986db1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-09-12 05:53:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ac12533283116c95735156a19f5d6eff SHA-1: 13a6b6ec981171ebfb615cdba46093dac017b5b3 SHA-256: ae8d44cd9b986db1a3bfd36c1b148cf68d05780e137cf1d100a704529a7493b7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it likely contains malicious content or exploits. The numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics strongly indicate a malicious link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=install+su+binary+adb
    • https://wic-net.com/userfiles/file/wetavara.pdf
    • http://waycreon.net/bhaskar/yii/upload/files/xumarakikov.pdf
    • https://tims.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71648793260.pdf
    • http://104408017.linker.tw/files/fubituxu.pdf
    • https://coevent.ru/upload/files/42991268043.pdf
    • http://xn--b1agaa2anfqdp.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sivodifepirelopagipi.pdf
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7521b5893a7ab2984448e7bdd8c5e554/tukijujovofefaxefip.pdf
    • http://gasthaus-steinkirchen.de/img/editor/file/6225325219.pdf
    • https://biroestarsa.hu/uploads/file/31816246286.pdf
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130d96f7f5fd---diwafuwexoma.pdf
    • https://webrobogo.hu/kepek/babonopojopiw.pdf
    • https://satnamunicipalcorporation.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juvadilawero.pdf
    • https://pre-www.bridge-academy.com/uploaded/ckeditor/files/jivalilitun.pdf
    • http://wamer.org/userfiles/file/mujupofijovafinazoraf.pdf
    • https://gogreenonline.net/userfiles/image/fckeditor/file/vuwam.pdf
    • http://avvocatogiuliani.it/userfiles/files/64756449388.pdf
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eb4a789a2c---92810910184.pdf
    • http://www.armstrongre.com/files/files/40707373169.pdf
    • http://studiolegalebisantis.it/userfiles/files/sudojapomuvob.pdf
    • https://huuphongplastic.vn/uploads/images/files/25727203275.pdf
    • http://solyaris.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56784770809.pdf
    • http://itcbeautytrainingschool.com/userfiles/file/98711013123.pdf
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fbd6a1e7f8---5888916610.pdf
    • http://yjccnc.com/upload/files/lilininugomazeripaberose.pdf
    • http://rucodelniza.ru/userfiles/file/94301468029.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b7bb.bin
67b45eb48e502d6b0fa375be91b9e0ac36545eb9594606db3a710b438a585d4a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7BB 10296 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cefc.bin
f183b751a880ac7875fa86df261dbb647690e4a782bde9c0b07b3be88aa2d560
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEFC 15656 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f704.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF704 16792 bytes