Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aea2418084793928…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-07-05 06:53:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 47150ceeabd6f3722266e661d5fce543 SHA-1: 0a3b9399bbc5ad1dcac0760028f8ebcf5765ac4f SHA-256: aea24180847939285b527f63cb3311ff7cd11387f18df8ca64740422f26bd834
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of numerous distinct hosts and the 'utm_term_redirector=True' flag further indicate a deliberate effort to obscure the final destination and potentially trick users into clicking malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089866334f58---41852029818.pdf
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1ca9bda35b---likajemagurobitawuv.pdf
    • https://cursosgratuitosonline.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ft63kq5c64jkddusrddmcleqsu/91299208743.pdf
    • http://seashoresilverlabradors.com/clients/4/48/482fd9669fb3260065120a60ccac5e48/File/4615385313.pdf
    • http://michianaorchidsociety.org/clients/2/28/2832e32407c795c8d28ffe68102aa18e/File/96199839861.pdf
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecf545f9cce51db2de2f234db2473c4b/13525327282.pdf
    • http://hosungtour.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210618_90AD17991F3CAFF1.pdf
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfcb1b350df3dc04eb13eb64d3645a6e/39592043505.pdf
    • http://www.kilincsweb.hu/fileok/file/pajomafitubazizo.pdf
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1565af87a1a3c055f3ea4d4d557ed580/90953403477.pdf
    • https://espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wujijalufoxova.pdf
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d04560ac08e---1080185462.pdf
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a81645bb937---livikutorepi.pdf
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b43b8dcbe---79401392053.pdf
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be3195d1eae---vewajex.pdf
    • http://www.cenlafilm.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/wubegam.pdf
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f3e77960bd---sagiworoxomowapu.pdf
    • https://ascinfratech.com/clientprojects/trading/file/24008954387.pdf
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db10c445857---kulaguxarikigag.pdf
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079362089905---rosevokowedunetiratupuvap.pdf
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160857d0a1f277---29596723461.pdf
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b5cd204292---pekepugowefigorig.pdf
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hvc4tk9q61fu8dirr34b4tlb33/rorovup.pdf
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/zoxiwuvipagedo.pdf
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/93912156230.pdf
    • http://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/faraxosulixe.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=phd+thesis+in+finance+in+india+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_off0000fd3c.bin
fb09ca5cefaeceead9fd0efd9ff5a614243cd37ecb9637cd8b2e672901d4c5b0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD3C 10452 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000114df.bin
26a08bc0af964bbf905c83d2a954067d745938b1648498ddaaa9d079191e3610
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114DF 17864 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000142e2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142E2 16792 bytes