Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aee09c5b12193135…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-05-17 07:11:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 64a03bb05d4aa323cc91c23a8b60de0b SHA-1: c3c558aa300a5e10440527869f27f1ecb13faff9 SHA-256: aee09c5b1219313592f0a7dbb2c6af8195f67543ca8ed2e761b5232aa4906b54
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d0d8a5534---pelakimolujorudepavupaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d09ec3dbf497fb743af2afb9a66c6a57/divajure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/90074095429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0rfstgf8vtdcv8vjj0uahct5c6/muretobax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e47e472df1e6502e7554d390467c66b/jefibam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c62cfc9dfb---xejexuretexipokekusoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef4594c0ab---1248691924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flatadministration.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/59950058097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/vejadogepinotin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/63889264532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160896a8c426d8---bopanebopazeruleviposemin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d8b95adec---12359767603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d804ee7dce291c498eab1f8ea72a2cb/64070988592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5e44930c5---nezusisugebadutet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095edcb1bc8c---49958508201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/disovotawasixesogimuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f57951297---mofulebukufaranerapow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771f32e73f7---javelovada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=kannada+old+devotional+songs+freePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d012.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD012 3032 bytes
SHA-256: a79f5425f0971f439930547d2ce8cfd47d9ba1fcdea89a6024071b3cb7f06edc
font_01_sfnt_off0000dae9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAE9 5104 bytes
SHA-256: 33c61516a1f3a7b74d946caa03b27ed8d3ff03974d320c91162ae5b2738f94ec
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC66 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 7b67bf57e7562df51892289e8a6633b811b9ad1474359f5527b6523f5ea90b08
font_03_sfnt_off00011059.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11059 2528 bytes
SHA-256: c865da41a0438e2406d7c3c9b434da85e8a0822b966f8395d1ef046d03302c8b