Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae96b4ccc9dafec7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 14:48:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 44008e506613ee948b36ebc5792d2cce SHA-1: f0cd79f788acf52a3ae323fddd710d30ebf9f5c2 SHA-256: ae96b4ccc9dafec7a44f25ee6ff9423a9dba09eb4016a1f2e807ab1d8ee5a31f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the heuristic firings point to the document's primary function being to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=linked+list+in+data+structures+and+algorithms+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f045ca7a0---25318247070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/zixodatuzeniluxedop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atol-res.pl/uploads/file/82066729297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bde47b5242f---jogij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161133bbf93287---medevubogijenuwezaxunama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fceresources.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jikagagowiroje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aebca620815b60b71a19aa6669dc4945/vigaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2i912a7devgn4gt6mpbh1m1q23/82424571598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takipbizde.com/calisma2/files/uploads/beludalemiriwiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kevinmcallisterlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fuririresekidopawonixum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124d15383bab---90535586441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cobansut.com/userfiles/file/90617789902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756eeca9194---tifiboma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.sg/images/users/00000000/files/97000507671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ag792ae3j1pp86l6fnbn3pl7f2/14449650697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vencedor.coop/images/admin/file/xeruritajejotemabegapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r3anhjlfe22ki85220tofnd9mu/sojijakevaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2jqk98d4rtoka9nqt416clln67/lagetufisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drzwiukryte.pl/userfiles/file/88577143058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d9da42da06---wemaxopefikepogozope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalchurchesinstitute.com/files/file/kolaxexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2-140-swe8h.xn--p1ai/files/59192174619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaretti.it/userfiles/files/duvugevoxenigafij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0001457d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1457D 11216 bytes
SHA-256: c2fb4fa3f51215acac88826b3db6a6e5392db34f7f1c019008b5fbf76d968b29
font_01_sfnt_off00015f5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15F5A 20596 bytes
SHA-256: fcde072ba5df2ab2d8f71fa009637a513e3c8fa74235d5de4b231bbd49e20d7e
font_02_sfnt_off00019471.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19471 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1