Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aebda0a0bed0924a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 13:44:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1f251614c1e987be2447c2f435333552 SHA-1: 5f1c424b9d1930a538331d0fa2f8dbedfeca57b9 SHA-256: aebda0a0bed0924a2629524231a0b05990faa48cc5ea529bc2c25c0e7da54dc5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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=grilled+ham+and+cheese+sandwich+calories
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/rurufexu.pdf
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n48dp5110c96adcifrn7a30lg2/pepufej.pdf
    • http://stinpo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xevonelinudarolo.pdf
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094053bcdb0c---17845956997.pdf
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i6tc1teanmdnj3j79ja2a9sshc/zibowoxigemanozoluwuto.pdf
    • https://www.sehersirin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bae200023---15214206633.pdf
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46a127ff5203daff7259788cdd044dad/tagogesuseguruduren.pdf
    • http://eurekaelearning.com/upload/news/file/17143294791.pdf
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a113a45fb6e---mategidotiwusokesolowagu.pdf
    • http://dejede.com/userfiles/file/rexizakutinikudutajenure.pdf
    • http://jcon-aps.dk/userfiles/file/vezexov.pdf
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a974487a894---1487790614.pdf
    • https://roweryelectra.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/162217452043.pdf
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aabenoj97hr9d8e9ckjsen1c91/78791320108.pdf
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/97722601639.pdf
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947be5eaeb0---909080643.pdf
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11a5da333791216caf17e9c45283f35a/19125993792.pdf
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609419d6480c1---kosamej.pdf
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e493bf2bdbacd0b87f4e7d48defe31d/nemedikamevofukikobipo.pdf
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fca16e83fe9fec1a6f2d853f1edbba0e/67391663370.pdf
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1e0c38a0d---73503577936.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_off000131b1.bin
38605ee2f54a523ef195c9bb20da4d1aa3b641ddedea034c70a917489baff4de
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131B1 18128 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00016157.bin
8827afaf0e891366510db725bc9b6001239cd120a1fec3ed73b4aba873528dfe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16157 10664 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000179a1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x179A1 16792 bytes