Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aec0ea05b8da5063…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:03:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1d1b0e4fb30a38c5be5448692b70732e SHA-1: 46f31f4196f160a8719551e49707c69cf16ffa0b SHA-256: aec0ea05b8da50636cc1aefe62d6aca779fdb2f31bdbb77fd9e9e3bc586432e7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs likely serve as part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=not+mine+either PDF link annotation
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7faedf23f---63638361908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pranabkumar.com/fckimages/file/17267113913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://singer-island-condos.com/userfiles/files/99262660804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shoppingplanet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97665856695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160723dd2a1ea4---rusutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.celso.org/download/favorumunelobufitumijuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nusratali.com/userfiles/files/38634664978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kompletucetnictvi.cz/files/file/tasajodidij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoaidn.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xofipukezemumef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panhongbo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/42476401745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shriadinathbank.com/uploads/jalewikonomaxikunamasaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160777a0d85ad0---78328497049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talleresjpg.es/img/file/99874988429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ef471b266e---gupas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/ronevekalugekubuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotobambagiotti.it/userfiles/files/849519962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitalsyndic.com/userfiles/file/vevap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffff8ddd34596c4f593d4bb1cb518076/nupeguza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608278900ff65---zujozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097ef433680b---lepenamunelefituzavaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fleschimmo.lu/userfiles/files/24812970743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulgreeter.com/userData/board/file/beredepikibigut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f0b2c431a---23498829689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00791d1b3989b324245db4446d66a96a/berokaliliwisugigare.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_off0000f208.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF208 21920 bytes
SHA-256: bb6266ec8ef7d6d2e17083e94dc02bb8a3916abf1b3cdbc1f2044b5d018f43e9
font_01_sfnt_off00012b35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B35 9972 bytes
SHA-256: acc5797e5abd8fc362bf444b05f12a0737e2dfb26038c420355e97bb77222cc8
font_02_sfnt_off0001410a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1410A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1