Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aeef7724f95aeab2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 00:02:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: e1b5a4d9e7df03f3fd575a49e6afda13 SHA-1: 4a7998c892ac1942bf04c948c05417d63cb6d9fa SHA-256: aeef7724f95aeab227f02efe3e6ade127d8daa3b89451aca9768ed50aa48b704
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it's a PDF link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious document techniques.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a705aae909e---11600040235.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/12571731786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightofislamonair.org/uploads/files/mujizetugivefajiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a22ad79b3c8---zozubaveri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://covinahigh1980.com/clients/1/14/147ee80f0cf2e08ca1b5067d21485a43/File/7115000096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europartner2.pl/uploads/80040540750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb947cbe769156a0f3c3676a395869a9/37343630509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://33mobility.net/uploads/files/95826346120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca91e43e3b11f21091aee09add50a8b9/fomezubezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/871feebf0c0b7fb16849d991ef6fc990/31870402768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vet-arrighicolangelicristilli.eu/userfiles/files/79966632730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stijsr.com/userfiles/file/kuromumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloezoloto.ru/userfiles/file/kiwikonomakapadafewod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/68170244432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/421e2e9c7589d40cae399dff6e563eab/kixodis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/205617242161196c283a510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad856162e0e2c2ea1d5cd7a1b300c26e/domoxopebosawinujekavusin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myarchitect.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fimamulivojejoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da53f67fb92a93606e49c0d05a1e06b4/gipepem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elijasprojekts.lv/files/file/38727388313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1dd3e628b1---8035092504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1f29a8295ce8be29160e97105ef9c9c/zolak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/jatuwek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c8eebc35f9---75004945197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bociany.sk/media/file/renizilave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b3ef9b20b---puvamewulimakufanef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nieruchomoscikomercyjne.co/files/file/nitajanafol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=the+bulletproof+diet+cooking+methods+roadmap+pdfPDF 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_off0000f569.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF569 11364 bytes
SHA-256: f7f7f9c3dd4289e2392f94270d48a8e4ab9cac5f40fdeb6ceaaa1d105a37e93c
font_01_sfnt_off00010f8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F8B 17752 bytes
SHA-256: b489cd8f2bb8a97ebbbf7ad72d93e637badcca920636ea75d5607169ee84a5db
font_02_sfnt_off00013dd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DD0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1