Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cae0244f51bd25c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 02:45:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 1dd9276d209e947cb1c5cfc1b3bdfc19 SHA-1: 3c9422a0829eff9785837b1c836d7b5f57308132 SHA-256: cae0244f51bd25c492ae985bf620113c38736ff1252f2c3b6bd77e5ca5e0f4d7
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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=how+to+add+arabic+keyboard+in+android PDF link annotation
    • http://otczenacts.com/media/files/neraxitepojixebujulago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanasulcikova.cz/userfiles/11439795932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywayrtk.info/userfiles/file/beleje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135af8a92108---59124224863.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2803244ea2521eac3ee77d3e46a88b0/26470003787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supermarketdv.ru/files/file/bufasozalerejimezakox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/bidotolotafinitufojadubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udokutscher.de/gfx/userfiles/files/85617224896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021091317051483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbicwad4afgcgd5aph7d5e.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2448557717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f54375e160---gevobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiande-global.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fobodewogekunaregijuzad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vukupojuzalowejibuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coyada.com/up_images/up_images/jenabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130832a8316a---rixewubagijokoxanun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langfordfinancialservices.com/userfiles/files/garizasesuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0286869143.com/editor_images/files/49260774285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c35bfb7012b9b08c7ef9745b49a0f9c/77204939775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16ad89eaf031eed3c263ab5037511326/xisiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingsfci.com/userfiles/file/21184977381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613336915df24---zakazogosesusegijip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/risejezanozowibosited.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastindiaspray.com/suvra/eastindia_spray/files/kofowelovotila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupekineconcept.com/userfiles/file/48926960236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nagymester.com/userfiles/file/24156430616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c8fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8FC 10572 bytes
SHA-256: e9cc85430ac328811f4df3dd375f4e9f51973b35ecfa23becfb04844dcbb2890
font_01_sfnt_off0000e148.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE148 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f95a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF95A 18692 bytes
SHA-256: fff28490dda35429fcf0b5a30c4cac92d367043758de3311b854da5bbbfdd8f9