Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aeaf2dcf7404686f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 09:01:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 5e0d2939cbb6828bfd7ad24ab063e0fc SHA-1: 8ef3723b37799e56b594c108bf89d41af0a62d5e SHA-256: aeaf2dcf7404686f2b82654f50f24377d806228abe3908017c8305787da0c78d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a lure for users to access malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters suggest an attempt to distribute malicious links broadly.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+compute+square+root+manually PDF link annotation
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/no2v49jmpuvulhs9216r3jlt1b/xigivibubowinojejiwojide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2e023fdfd---47853852869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fresh-j.info/images/uploadedimages/file/20094836133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundreamz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kawasetodisigojineze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwnta.com/userfiles/file/muralete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc26c28d8e2---34835491840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f76fda0e0---15268634236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sellmysayarah.com/userfiles/files/gumivosudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----9sbbnbtte4cyg.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/resab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/80931406790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609de47fcb903---mufosuxodolokomazowosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acdd97a4cab---kakubufulolilipizadolobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://service-panev.com/userfiles/3480779051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phongthuyphatloc.com/luutru/files/fokuwanidodam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8jnvddvmoqtuqsv92bnbb9t9ho/10121251959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/benan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-stainlesssteel.com/uploads/image/files/nitumeduvunudarunewen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34d02ae5895b8e27b320f29dd8c3be1a/wufisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mclandpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/doboruxezugupikotafut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epiphanych.com/images/file/kovidibenakadavegodubonon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fa9a1fe614690aebb7969b91ababa56/sumufuroti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architetturaurbanistica.it/userfiles/files/xaxexadisusazitizab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sobgnli2t06rgt0d0k1933d71b/tozobewagomuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f16527d9e35---39088571278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757811c9feb---24514449166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mallorcaboom.com/res/wysiwyg/file/todemilujigojesijog.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_off0000cfd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFD6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7E8 17624 bytes
SHA-256: 181f7b42824c1dccd9d5d78ec2be707ef064505add32064038b230acaafe80f6
font_02_sfnt_off0001152e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1152E 10880 bytes
SHA-256: eef1c67645adfa4c8cf08a2c5cc33c25a0127437608087199f0fce578f5403eb