Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae9a12f0c8451e79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.7 KB Created: 2021-08-02 04:10:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 8f477765eb52055337fbfe0b9dccb2ea SHA-1: b1d40faeedb3d94d45f70b9cad6940ffafcc90c7 SHA-256: ae9a12f0c8451e7904f96b5a26807b635014f7cb488bb752b1a26165c9f077b5
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 CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The embedded links suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=all+my+sons+chris+character+analysis PDF link annotation
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8f9790636ab8a3f26b306cec1e25203/54028062446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c98bb1ea314---65025563948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f0c9a7ecb---3855056923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f2d9e965f6137343de98422efead5fd/80205241089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce46cc43c7d---pepimox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loyallcanada.ca/editor_files/file/tiwajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7nri1au7340euo0rb4j9rln70/50086423743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a61a6eb817d2d297b1e659f8482e535/82580507717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/20706392647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a311019d1cc---31763615388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsara.ru/userfiles/file/74940508225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l2leh9jslp2su2qb1eooqbluj9/81467015660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773c70e066a---80437753584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e0cf8e24a---4374815549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpdb.org/userfiles/files/7287755150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabtur.ru/upload/files/duvisutexokuzebudir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ggmtc.net/userfiles/files/66026171041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p0bjr2ft97durgrbfirj6fttj4/tixezud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutronicltd.com/userfiles/file/48608444819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c64f33eb7ace8797be73bf59b48d9873/92489097568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f8cdf312d5---72791864448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1daab0f1c0099388c006f2709001fca3/46083761443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16189d1657d99bc7dc592fe85f8ca364/wemekuvotevokikixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazurubezpieczenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/17268461546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://longhoang.vn/upload/files/bugikigovojamibiwis.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_off000116e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012efb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EFB 17752 bytes
SHA-256: dfb1a373f1fdc85307dca87e2ed59122ccba59c959bea3bf86f4d418547cb16b
font_02_sfnt_off00015ca2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15CA2 10592 bytes
SHA-256: a97715883cb7904a6a80dca45dd7ba73df93ae1b695a9b3c907423d81f2cff5b