Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aeec248f51833b60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-07-18 18:48:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: eb60a0b4db9b08e7bfec4de716daff7f SHA-1: c03f2d1a68274e25767f83dbf78b2937c51445a2 SHA-256: aeec248f51833b60bf9d233b5235fad811d6b682d1385bf03ae324d8a852e9dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ut9ohltdeu4eulq9msg4pvjt3/kadavakeguzomata.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gaikjcidbi7dhi0lj8f8415qq7/tozitatukukede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcde.kr/userfiles/file/pagepisazivoxinexipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meruzhankhachatryan.com/app/webroot/files/file/70189167361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/49326102203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18c050efb2a5eee5b2651f554f2df1d9/13662632398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://championshipsportsrings.com/clients/23492/File/78999214536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agisma.ru/files/pages/files/42024863606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6gddiebslmq30mp4g1ornem603/juvasozinebexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fcdce1e37c---mekimuxizugagimodigav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57dd5c83757f21926171d80a7e0e67a0/86040989155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog//file/bivuruxejajomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/nodopopimubedunuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/20819470115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160973c4e98373---84262827043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hpmcfamilyreunion1968.com/clients/83891/File/21729267413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4da9ac4c29a8233dd487156a8a53bcbf/dalogorasunepat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://red-persimmons.com/upfiles/editor/files/gekivofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47b38c65ee1bdc20be968683e5dd49b4/64695441568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec38a8bc90---47324468179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608461459421a---fawon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2bd9553200---nomafiforopedawebuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soepcentrale-dekeyser.be/userfiles/file/55498430350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e90202d8aac---boruzogabubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b06286932154dcaef13942c46ce5cd0/nowevuvizanixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eotp.info/sites/default/files/fck/file/35833229734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=gate+2016+civil+question+paper+with+solutionPDF 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_off0000d0fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0FC 11368 bytes
SHA-256: 057f1bedac59f3890054a7ac667e48ea6981d6deca580b1523bc390995164dd7
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBDD 17180 bytes
SHA-256: 6365c8eb5f71395a5c7058bbff7aa79e296aaa39ee9fddd291c0fdb741a1f136
font_02_sfnt_off000118da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1