Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aed87f902be0b7fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 13:27:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c29f518d2b9b3668ccec0c9ae090671c SHA-1: f5aec08e61eddc9e26265385f8fef233cc9d9ca7 SHA-256: aed87f902be0b7fa91a2ea91499d2ece131a025e1812e98c58891bff493b00e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=money+train+2+demo PDF link annotation
    • http://litho-and-co.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/52489798199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oriental-kitchens.com/userfiles/files/34089531541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.specemc.ru/upload/files/rekedopaletenologekoxebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phulieumaymacbaoco.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/zugiwuragevubebikepef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubselectionvoyages.com/images/file/kixuzibadoramate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7sate.com/filespath/files/20210912201613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rootbeadmill.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-3/20210903073431959286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationshield.ae/userfiles/files/xiwibididazesedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161422ca299cd5---totuzitoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korea-seals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2065263521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rdsdealers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zexuxuzopanukowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k8e2b99oi1s5a88cjaldg9hfdi/zababowofukobugamus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heydarbaba.org/resimler/files/misaredizabogowifigufuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berallebags.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210917062707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savitapiti.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/patoverif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapac.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jojawepaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecolservizinettuno.com/userfiles/files/palokedoxarimij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mogilew.ru/userfiles/file/36336657649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://underbutter.cz/download/foto/52021533920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyunbulsa.org/~ewedd2/userfiles/file/89406235794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arslanemlak.com/E/file/In PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161317f25230d7---21395592789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burattinojatek.hu/userfiles/file/250884030.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_off000106ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106CA 10424 bytes
SHA-256: b699fde072694361b32f0524c40e95fed12c9fe881086a4b4948a9948bd30258
font_01_sfnt_off00011e75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E75 18172 bytes
SHA-256: 59902e878213d0d28386e0fc75842eab93f5186e6bb92423d05fdfae8a8d30a1
font_02_sfnt_off00014d4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D4A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1