Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae92f2214fa47182…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 01:10:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ddaee2f267ae9bb8919c2652382ffc60 SHA-1: eeea63685ad479f3132566b901ef9247d7052718 SHA-256: ae92f2214fa47182ba7ba50435e554903ac8c285cf8a871b4cd8382899f49741
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. These links likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or to distribute further malware. The presence of multiple links on disposable or compromised hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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 http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8b44f6bd12---kimaguseneguwosez.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lotteppta.net/beta/assets/file/67089632730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/toe2dc3eopp1vsiv3kmcpo0h63/64313227801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160faa1c4c02fc---natowojukovuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.agencesramos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34445299200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worthingtonpark101.com/userimages/xufowovusenekebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b42b32dcfda---42315064086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/rokozanurexugura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpp300.fr/userfiles/file/56172809510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithaca1966.com/clients/8/85/85e9e0a76fddb83d7689cebc6ab07fae/File/xopokobapajederoxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhf-china.com/d/files/33160859978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161217f926def8---wamugetegeforimazuwamug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moreit.ch/productinfo/file/54631612208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c905cd3b37f7646690a6147ecc4b677b/muvufopubugikubusan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cs8ous1dpe7of4d59benj0s16/31251806224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-31/20210731093551714153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliotoconsulting.com/clients/862286/File/tidozafawogorar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24bac9316797fcd91b8bd0a0fb99143b/89042584720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/26727629655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yocarbroker.com/upload/ckfinder/files/779132186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ju0576q3kqcde9ghfterc6l1cb/forubakovupiwevepij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/989c4b085fa4a771f2d6eeac5fce7d8f/vonujez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birutelorasin.com/contents/files/24728752665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/71802429086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomocnaukowa.net/Upload/file/vazekowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playfromhome.org/clients/4/49/49939bf6a151252ba1adfe53d1befa29/File/ruragevitodiduxuzapunixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pol2-simf.ru/userfiles/file/12848537578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbs-group.co/userfiles/files/jimogos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=engineering+maths+3+notesPDF 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_off0000e28f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE28F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000faa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAA1 18752 bytes
SHA-256: d93308bd8eac50fb575ef3b209e91c21b771e1544ba7661cdb98e5f4a7be33be
font_02_sfnt_off00012bf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BF3 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 2848342a73796ab9c29d6faa02f800cedb7d5a7f08ae5e2d2d6d8d7dff48c947