Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aeb827b42dc4bcfd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 03:09:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c499c1cc1aa70529411591f0f0f4043e SHA-1: 2116c3e8fbe0e35fd787b0fa6be60185f4ac473e SHA-256: aeb827b42dc4bcfdd0ab367a90070d9dc2eb8297d0c34a8287237ecc58bf403f
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 disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the URL structure and heuristic firings point to a common pattern of using compromised infrastructure for malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+setup+a+hotspot+on+an+android PDF link annotation
    • http://amsaneeraus.fi/userfiles/files/zerafupogikozixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leebyenghun.com/new/upload/board/files/wobav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iqrainternationalschool.org/_assets/files/72180758154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atccs3.it/atccs3/fckeditor/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vunasomujiteju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4df56ca6662590620fc1d2bbab321f8c/13978225846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.smartlandgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93491949418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tachikawa-derma.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97785856873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lemarko.com/userfiles/file/85043317871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksx.top/images/userfiles/file/zomefubuxoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csmgh.net/pevron/www/img/file/puvozegafixerizunizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--lenachatka-57b.pl/uploaded/file/64697347444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivaldiskibus.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210912_C7F44DA28AEB7257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atiksigorta.com/files/butirusirogogozogeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donateagift.eu/userfiles/file/tivisukasifagejudukoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fishandcosolicitors.com/uploads/files/puwovefofogisujoxubumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613609e68a098---baxuzimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibrahimalsada.com/pics/file/xafudidafumoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itracmediav5.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lonokobilivij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widepolymers.com/userfiles/file/60328510892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gonzagafood.com/userfiles/files/66258137967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/555d25961024751c04601f103bcc827d/xijupef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenvalleykerala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94856782275.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_off0000bb1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB1C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d333.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD333 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 7e91684f3129ff8721f6f10c383f9249e9e80e3b2bb45303aef25cdfdb5f6b87
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB73 16796 bytes
SHA-256: f1e907aef7f56385004e6412709e1a17941af5cb5d216a7d1bbe8bb4c7ebc3a9