Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae96d5ffa90bdb2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:05:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6a3696302d02da7a0f7c52ce2cb27012 SHA-1: 3c355302ddc94ff572cc71c570634d29444acf56 SHA-256: ae96d5ffa90bdb2a94511f1724e49177522446adc84b1ef88a8dbe7ab80a5564
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lead users to malicious content or further compromise. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://aonetreks.com/uploads/file/pemipujinuxagojexug.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612cd4b2bf179---49281543261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davebakeragency.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41a7a2f41a616977ed736f288be88247/88928711514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ecd6bc7385---27504649835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fresh-j.info/images/uploadedimages/file/tuzajixurerarimafujed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarenta.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210808_51B8B892CFDA1126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twinslock.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/popokovot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a69f6a73527---xomaduru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94l348vgkvm8h8o23h9ktr68ol/pabazunotozagetufun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ne369sbhk4brg5lju0n9qsur0/75555820727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeon-dev.com/uploads/files/202109010426279042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viettincapital.vn/upload/files/luzapal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/9818228388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinoorchids.com/image/file/4301261530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fecirturizm.com/resimler/files/fifalutirebeganiwaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietthanhstone.com/images/news/file/58938030884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polytex.de/sites/default/files/7554737963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mcm00a5hns1lcmgsoko6tm6t8p/vugekodagoninosupufebevam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/6300395998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nhv95n0a3v04qivkje470gu54a/7376534030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pi-consulting.ch/download/rubemevazekevuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajaunited.com/contents//files/37652828710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubsecurite.fr/webroot/upload/files/rojumofofotukifiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c43c3f789c24242b6a68955669bfdf85/7824660299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=solow+model+of+economic+growth+pdfPDF 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_off0000bdfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDFE 17260 bytes
SHA-256: 4ec7bab0e8a0d3062ab8249a772c03f126e561ae1e1411fe1724be053de19d5c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA6B 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 8bfd60e846c1dbf495651443efd6ff4d8001c6f10465e332c71fee56f51cd88b
font_02_sfnt_off00010346.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10346 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1