Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aeaee04ac96560ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-09-15 10:12:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e6854ed7797cd9db9fb48f2db4d00f42 SHA-1: ef3ac5437cc5055381ae1b7541a9e9cdb61296e7 SHA-256: aeaee04ac96560eeb418fbe45ed0315aeaa4dcb607861dedfbb1396f1730a67f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=worldbox+full+game+apk
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/veperuwamesulajutek.pdf
    • https://kawanmto.net/contents/files/26307107591.pdf
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135a3bc9ebd2---7758576610.pdf
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86e3a5a3d9ca9f656a52a30e15782851/35903050829.pdf
    • http://slr-eyewear.com/slr/userfiles/20210905001944.pdf
    • https://polymadeniyaglar.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/tobowofatudufimowadawulup.pdf
    • http://retailpark.bg/uploads/wysiwyg/files/sinemidekisatigabeb.pdf
    • http://learnersdigest.org/userfiles/file/zujipiwabovuge.pdf
    • https://fullmagicweekend.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98630894210.pdf
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/8080246549.pdf
    • http://www.satit.nrru.ac.th/satit/_Adminis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73907907139.pdf
    • http://chono.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/palezamimiga.pdf
    • http://wccflooring.com/userfiles/files/63220305900.pdf
    • https://em.heephong.org/ethnicminorities/cmsadmin/ckfinder/files/ranupiwugufujisimuvad.pdf
    • http://vssteel1999.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/69281093724.pdf
    • http://lavalnerina.com/userfiles/file/xejasen.pdf
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uub46feeoklsd5gkm939qp2nb9/86215003786.pdf
    • https://teater77.nl/userfiles/file/pigubimufetamifak.pdf
    • http://advairtech.eu/assets/userfiles/file/vepalapo.pdf
    • http://ambvet-trefontane.eu/userfiles/files/wedowipujizorexeketadusi.pdf
    • https://hbfilm.ca/resimler/files/80387849956.pdf
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1phi3tno2g444cefkib7ejfjpj/tedij.pdf
    • http://12shio5.com/contents/files/geziragutejabeto.pdf
    • http://kurskodkb.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/melefapu.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_off0000c339.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC339 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000db50.bin
1cdabba555e677b8dc90aa7ad028202ad74578557dff99d8943db4b88c114fb1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB50 10804 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3d4.bin
33c7377c121c82ceec174fdd391abbef1efc6ca53b7c9c9df0fd0f9c18885844
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3D4 17160 bytes