Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae9c8b6a93007ebb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-13 11:33:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d209d6827403fb971d0550cc479c3ffd SHA-1: 475eb2cd646b003adae237f30ab51e3837d6487c SHA-256: ae9c8b6a93007ebb18c13bb5ce6f555943e7064d744046ada44432eefdc002d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the PDF structure suggest it may exploit vulnerabilities or lead to further malicious downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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 http://rs-entp.com/upload/file/fibuvimulufudironupavor.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/98168761867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/jadumidivatedetoxeduxebaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-cosmik.ru/sadm_files/21966430500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136103f8dd27---87959949465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sm.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32411195567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enilubricant.hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/8998142980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mecateengenharia.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36068509568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneofitou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56974999712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.hk/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210911_1773855AA9C01336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clove7.com/userfiles/file/37416486697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://condominiobrisasdelnorte.com/userfiles/file/soxamexak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.its-dph.cz/admin/fckeditor/editor/userfiles/file/jofaxijetewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insolite.lu/img/userfiles/files/bokarezuwudekodetatibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b96no4dab3afbgsubnd5kvsa2/49412448292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.de/userfiles/file/56752596161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irk-yoga.ru/upload/files/zilijaruxotexeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareu.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/959664708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinaarc.com/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nidiwufigirujurumupotovat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://99hospitalitygroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52811255102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/wasokogolakub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcenevents.nl/site/upload/files/82259656687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613239ec2aef8---sopop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/pukatunenewelut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://georgewongdesign.com/gwd/upload/files/52896497766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=hack+score+hero+apkPDF 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_off0000bf27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF27 10216 bytes
SHA-256: b27b1ca262e488d4c429dd2b88846bc7549948828457efb7e80429bfee369ce1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d634.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD634 16504 bytes
SHA-256: 8baa16e7a80159b087498a6adc1cee05944e4df0b9fd277acdc262f95327d4dc
font_02_sfnt_off000100ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1