Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aeea8ed8e53bf460…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-21 10:05:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cc5acebdea2026bc7f216878852ca794 SHA-1: f6a9a129b792e89b4c2131c2e765d006e1df2bb6 SHA-256: aeea8ed8e53bf460b815e39e3f037b4370cb7ffebd473cef7024da2b491ce1c3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of ClamAV detection and ML classification as malicious further supports this. The embedded URLs and link farm structure suggest an attempt to direct users to phishing sites or download further malware, aligning with spearphishing attachment tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+app+execute+shell+command
    • http://kxzyjy.com/CKEdit/upload/files/kukatewijunejubagulexew.pdf
    • https://gkia.org/kingkong/userfiles/files/19600817096.pdf
    • https://marblobathware.com/app/webroot/img/files/razojowij.pdf
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/kokajuratizimek.pdf
    • http://tarnava.eu/user_images/file/87589900029.pdf
    • https://mitrasuksesku.com/userfiles/file/84686636302.pdf
    • http://www.mariabeckmann.com/fotos/uploads/files/82266617595.pdf
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137a0fe6553b---lisetowifixox.pdf
    • http://leasingtowers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93473911262.pdf
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e609c114e0---33233358890.pdf
    • http://wonikqnc.com/upload/editor/file/1631687735.pdf
    • http://lobanowscy.pl/userfiles/file/33291669491.pdf
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161381855a7744---kikepa.pdf
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131a3213fa6f---22954964205.pdf
    • http://centromp.it/userfiles/files/zanerozeweroragas.pdf
    • http://chukguwang.com/files/fckeditor/file/fojupokefumolupevobiwoxar.pdf
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/37120879040.pdf
    • https://vzglavniki.net/data/file/letumemanunonumifununuf.pdf
    • http://esejsc.com/upload/files/34942024430.pdf
    • http://doubler-son-capital.com/photos/files/wedejulezuwamesugi.pdf
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/18128174672.pdf
    • https://dpengineers.info/admin/userfiles/file/10664316393.pdf
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021090518071233.pdf
    • https://ap-qatar.com/userfiles/files/64024160193.pdf
    • http://beijingteye.com/upload/files/27018413873.pdf
    • https://www.bmo-agencement.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5368529002.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bb20.bin
c00ed51c6eb68e691c0b4a2717daaf246ca62ab8e4794756ec4becd79de07cf2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB20 10960 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d45b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD45B 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec6d.bin
a271e88b136931ac357139686eaa90d9f950e7748e52c686e91a1d949344d488
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC6D 16988 bytes