Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aef59e9eb0e184b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 08:45:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 486f6661c7f885c0fba7fddaccf3cb68 SHA-1: 427d42817f9a45d017101fc9aa693c7236588477 SHA-256: aef59e9eb0e184b2ff1e7d25e439a24451da04ec21ca127e626f2cf8367bd433
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external URIs and is identified as a link farm pointing to compromised websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rose+sangria+with+vodka
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3148bf8e09ac3603f748503358c1e252/44685552540.pdf
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mbf4blbdhdoltt68q5b077adsc/11339233013.pdf
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/81337822038.pdf
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b68d9fefac5---21226806738.pdf
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6138c4e5ab4412a0ac2e859571c2f3a0/modolevatunozowal.pdf
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b51e1eacc8319a9238aec287f97b952/fivarabewubamuwixuf.pdf
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/mukuxefiparesexagowalo.pdf
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0db21ef32c940c309d0daa55f47cc862/nadixefikujolirabigejuja.pdf
    • http://barsugo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8504728253.pdf
    • http://champaigncursillo.com/userfiles/file/wipajexu.pdf
    • http://www.bufolari.com/public/immagini/file/13873008520.pdf
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/594d05c1b6dc74b11096af19c4de09e0/22759500580.pdf
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/og22cqfsfqcqjm28nlm526tavj/75947613361.pdf
    • http://pajurioverslas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89885280670.pdf
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096d8a0587ae---81599153382.pdf
    • https://www.latentoac.com/portal/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1ecb577ivuf8bf3c3avkoijtp/93654842747.pdf
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbc37207c6d2919744090ecfe7086b5f/boxawapaniduxedif.pdf
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9019f7e601---vopalujobi.pdf
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b06df4e9691---juzitaramano.pdf
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b0a1a9352---womajip.pdf
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/222bee3655ac9428347ee4f00a97609b/lututeges.pdf
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc1cb8c2741---34865974848.pdf
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d91b92d8786---78044933081.pdf
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tu00ae512ghlul0q3o91q4la0u/89668404261.pdf
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609412b0bbd21---44157013066.pdf
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a6eebd82b---bozutomivanizibuvelowak.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_off0000f184.bin
98593e3f7dfb7ed02214c366eccf6fcddc755aaa5778a964c461a745a49a1ad6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF184 17644 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011f84.bin
2a94ae47014da15077bc2eac252d3a12c07385887c7ed346f4af15bb07a04c8f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F84 10768 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013827.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13827 16792 bytes