Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae9786c8a8de8343…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-09-28 00:19:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e7fe7e3f32e51e538ce1b33b7f83aee2 SHA-1: 9b376cb3d3ed2f10222b05b23a32dc334b8fda84 SHA-256: ae9786c8a8de83432fc6d05cec8116d8c01545506c2b47953a0a7aaec26de063
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9901

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apps+similar+to+android+auto
    • http://jainfarms.com/uploads/tezeg.pdf
    • http://fiorenzuolatrack.it/userfiles/files/5051511801.pdf
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161364ed54ad5b---81078370383.pdf
    • http://patrickstaxi.fr/userfiles/file/zesoterabapuraxino.pdf
    • https://trompis-tondschungel.de/userfiles/file/866659067.pdf
    • http://erpsamik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dawopukubinozikoxefepelu.pdf
    • https://livres-d-art.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tawute.pdf
    • https://bhandarisurgical.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duvewegawisarube.pdf
    • http://brkvinc.com/userfiles/file/412663990.pdf
    • https://doina.md/fckeditorfiles/file/22740110573.pdf
    • http://itineraire-consulting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76349772550.pdf
    • http://johnmichaelharrisonlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dikikaxesizoxobofiganavi.pdf
    • http://tryinvest.eu/userfiles/files/mifogotaboxab.pdf
    • http://drxzhang.com/userfiles/file/zimidunutosise.pdf
    • https://bem-sa.com/img/file/gewakijokix.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613707b039892---1344579853.pdf
    • http://rasmesafar.net/basefile/basefiles/47809697745.pdf
    • http://marchmont.ru/imgs/file/19415659459.pdf
    • http://onmamtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210924_F24FBD6675955F77.pdf
    • https://pianoinprimopianofestival.com/uploads/file/44672368626.pdf
    • http://greenbiotech.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/jisutidevikiluvadidok.pdf
    • http://vinczeandlaszlo.com/upload/18967700725.pdf
    • https://iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zulopel.pdf
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f0646fb7b8eec9e8e68fb8c195ba8aa/zorejikemedijo.pdf
    • https://kisikana.hr/UserFiles/files/88054880802.pdf
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ff20354cd2---sakisexiruki.pdf
    • https://cakamuzejs.riga.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62225301668.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_off0000be4b.bin
b2ecfddcefdf93965066446528349a5271043c735f3363438b43a74ca448c742
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE4B 19024 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef6f.bin
ea159c08d381e01086916be9d3179cdad3ed83c8191c3e5325b973f157fb3892
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF6F 10500 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010748.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10748 16792 bytes