Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aedcab541e0ac2ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 07:26:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 06f079bed2a9a339f29b71ac4ecf9e0b SHA-1: 2192bbaf5b152ebc2833ede086d3a05c0eaf9810 SHA-256: aedcab541e0ac2ca9719bc85a1efb76b52bc4d8239e305c905d38d4aa876cdfa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to phish or redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/231a4183b7ae30d0167a479b36530481/xupuwiligozawejikipoxawo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbezcba9a5aggb3j.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78340342649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9128c43b32d0bab0c0434eb4cf19ced/gozadefiwikafezorilepad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7342e3173baed52e25a4a4c526c8504f/mutizimaxigebirobukiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe29eb4e76---fegapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607177a0324bf---79268554221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6a7bd96a80fe8231ad825203c8f9f43/bazaxapage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisnismedsos.com/userfiles/file/rixabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-3/20210503000010406820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/676adb885eebb3e5c3b49fa26a5826a8/vetexukewinokakutujixem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/skdvtp2d2j15h1mtathcjfkgqq/tetezaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-bahia-real-estate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kamibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ximangsongthao.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/dadivojepirubasib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamuiboe.com/webroot/upload_media/jaxojurakobubenapiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a01b577f3---gakexobipadonoronurotaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070140f33ce1---96771613571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bobecoingatlan.com/uploads/editor/file/40916985922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/52718462357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf3bfc7350---13673317275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160babb53be53b---2157260935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b1c80a7485e16962e6626dccc30f282/fesaxavurofeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglatalkies.com/dynamic-images/cms/file/zifarijinigefezamemigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f69f0f74938381cc9ecddd85f08e739/fujufil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadcasthub.com/ci/userfiles/files/92460347258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=substance+use+continuumPDF 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_off00011d09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D09 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 7b0ccc823dc90db6e9ed4e46a99bab7128d643d4f6140a03fee8bb7f8522d707
font_01_sfnt_off00013525.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13525 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014d37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D37 17220 bytes
SHA-256: c30d374a29c32b76d0e9ddaaa607375ca91ae50cc2fa9049ceae637ee1552fd3