Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aefbcf9826eb0251…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 08:48:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e53b0f135032bc8c12a18d3d5dfae407 SHA-1: 3a1f6685ef53f5bf9f51a31bbbec0d6f71bba8c8 SHA-256: aefbcf9826eb025115f0e3e33e5d09b58aee62f997cb39af7a02931bc72fa58b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. Heuristics suggest it's designed for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external URIs and the ML classifier's high confidence score point towards malicious intent, likely involving exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5aee71bd9e64ab8ddbf48f83af24303a/47414477536.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23206732117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://railwaysrailroads.com/upload_files/files/57708643139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s2ipower.com/survey/userfiles/files/wilaker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d00fb6573e---35231383722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skontrolsengineering.com/file_media/file_image/file/vetumiguwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a9a55e439a---76138402862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab89009ac9a---vigadawozunowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kymkarajok.net/tiedostot/files/42916185118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b9c59344ae748a8ee8033f158f99fe5/zitidujojebuxasitixeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff7bf296ca28a640607fb1041288ae0b/rawebewegazimorivetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chia4kids.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/seduzafugewetoseruzemunin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844b333deed---lemuxajivojevojasanokafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runhouchem.com/upload/files/90637320677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://timminsrenovations.ca/file/1QJJxVVCve5DDLzK.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://educasters.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63894776581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3e6d36807---kebotizonomakujevuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atdawnwelift.com/userfiles/file/66405990224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tokyomagic.jp/images/library/File/95216042659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v6dtqobs8m7hd8srudotj2jq43/44446977419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursakaynak.net/userfiles/file/47213498983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/31739791514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2837ecf41d2ef8509a0a2b91fb9bff5/tigosuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5280514d8a---86714093973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fenotropil.ru/userfiles/file/vivajopip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=talk+about+your+last+vacationPDF 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_off0000d32c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD32C 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 1d372df7fcdb06473c10041bb5d97c602cefb7f429fd882a158989582b13cca1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB75 16888 bytes
SHA-256: 172d96a999fc03ee497d6ce3c73d197688f51dea660b3a378a0fa6f3541e2645
font_02_sfnt_off000116b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116B4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1