Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae961a07d3d9f48a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-05-25 07:42:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 84247d808447334129d9de3695ca77d7 SHA-1: f566b7ede73fc854d1bd9fc1e463b22515992777 SHA-256: ae961a07d3d9f48a478088b3323897a166aea9daeb181b4279d3c4de8223325c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly suggest the file is intended to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/026163c4129aff9028defb6d305d67ef/xevosexuvefokun.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43bd86e9eeacc0487c2cb61fc54bf112/29357014773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58ee4d7b533e71b6d986e9c9057e9b5b/wisezok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vvbaedv9d421frt67uk532obgk/31788586397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74c03cf6852c0c8bbcd234ab1cf5a72d/difuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b451321b24---98689442423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movesforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eg8sg9phpgeid8gaa6ufd4lpl2/42710372750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-2/20210502064146819574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c614c91777---fuwatax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9r5j5c83v0nkpej49bj8n18f76/83527828841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/37087694185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestapp4u.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file/gexexile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1485c7d21---53175633571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909d13a8f15---midufidejekoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1838af9e3d0ba1f9ef7dc5986b46928a/64228151580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccf24dd255---nibinetavaxuneku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=worcester+24i+system+boiler+user+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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e52f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE52F 5420 bytes
SHA-256: 0fbc5d1c7810345b96fa5fd8b05467204b300b52cf5c0cd38077cbfa8b5cc7c2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7A3 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 3a49802362d333ea2b8f435930617917866c30b4160db3a3ea79824d7b8a2b12