Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aeda3250888b1fa5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 17:47:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 374076fbab8ba0471c6283aa0c349d31 SHA-1: c9d390c8fcfa5fe25b18a3035e7f427265d21e21 SHA-256: aeda3250888b1fa50dcfc2a68f3b3bb9d556a58a249334dcb313f9c75778b093
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links strongly supports the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://shannonlakeestates.org/fck_images/file/mupojitazoninibeximup.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mbgi9nd1qikrn37fb1e4ku2h9b/6548282763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r2h5k2eraiobus2gmn9iibtku7/kifomibetegezomep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33lc4irnl9pn7seme9irdn01n1/75179199918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zaragozadenoche.es/upload/files/rovugozatokugibesogos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b89205fe13370524c331d1ed58bd5a03/xomexesodalakopoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daydeothe.vn/rich_editor/file/kawenubedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegioidongphuc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rukifebasefavedoxuvob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qdjshg.com/files/file/tunafuxoledibiparoxibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drive4smilesontario.ca/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/89837895586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acrclubinversores.com/files/galeria/files/37694065658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytbozhuo.com/upload/file/112218269647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiquim.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/boxaposifawozenoganopowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/396521990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de7df0f78f32799f5edfa9b79bd7e48c/fuwevugeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/faziluxofuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caratow.eu/userfiles/file/gagixorixawupelefif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b0b9d892d9---xusatusetubenepubevarox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://floridadressyourhome.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/81142495061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b096b0a10983c09cfa0bcec484f79758/zavoxopalinet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160825b2d92a1d---91521740261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80ae40aecd30f6b6a65ba7cbcd446d7d/dinodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0968ac3df6---86174812009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njboyuanchem.com/upload/files/voziwinevikififos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=enfermedades+psicologicas+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000ef96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF96 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000107a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107A8 18896 bytes
SHA-256: d9f3fd5e123261c455d66b1fb544b6b471fcf9a20bb46bc5972828333890071c
font_02_sfnt_off00013802.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13802 10848 bytes
SHA-256: c1035f303791ecbe6fcb0a724537baf87a0ab170b3c37bd50a78da7bebd3ee94