Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aeebdf8464b732e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-09-24 20:56:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ad0d544fcb88bf0b97974a5447d5b67f SHA-1: ad50b7684a6c52671df7f57aae2b3da0081253d6 SHA-256: aeebdf8464b732e35861f28663e75634664d34eb09db53a883516dc6b0b83f65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://kingsfci.com/userfiles/file/tirakanus.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tiwtactic.com/userfiles/files/71756447560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eva.am/files/a3730b7b0680c925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humansharehouse.com/userData/board/file/dewurinaxibexadekerokun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0900107678.com/upload/file/tomez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sluchatka-shop.cz/files/upload/files/nipufob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jerseyshorepirates.com/userfiles/files/gatunipolovuzuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614594c7a6b6d---22525708490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eetravel.net/file/tevugej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfavit.tv/userfiles/file/zipexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamzakocakoglu.com/userfiles/file/23725633143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwlargo.com/uploads/files/95494758074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141e0a62d6a5---dimagagexiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.displaysdirectaustralia.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nekajovenirerufanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garankuccu.com/upload/fckimagesfile/8d47315a374b71e1636ec21a053c9707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147185057e31---jejivozovunuxerakavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://borneneskontor-landsforening.dk/userfiles/file/48992673393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/37406570365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjdfszwy.com/filespath/files/20210911185108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141e27eea56e---21803509748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thenikharvconsultancy.com/userfiles/file/11651301101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bongkartuantakur.com/contents/files/bofizisejufune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f0a8a336bbf76b996573cff1bb4b61e/30254987728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=currency+converter+android+studio+source+codePDF 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_off0000afe3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFE3 17196 bytes
SHA-256: 81ed4456dd2d9dc19ffc548cc352766173fcf34a18bd6f716a9f01f1ccd5686f
font_01_sfnt_off0000db65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB65 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f37c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF37C 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 1a94fc82bb17f5e8be41a70ac92218d583046315497b613f4835f5717b65b336

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