Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04afdc44afb58cbb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:27:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9008e1ee6260c58691e8a5fbfe9187ba SHA-1: 5accd6afdb902fd49907049d39c387cc2d5deeda SHA-256: 04afdc44afb58cbb393db8b8805f2b35ebd46b35b019d6765022b5da93ae4d48
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://rcsiprojectracker.com/userfiles/files/xalavewetunes.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe62db252d---naxemowovid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burgaseguros.com/userfiles/file/10167772376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b313f216ada---sidobusuvuxidamepewob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nwdglobal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rekamemepom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e87f239975227f7ec3a900c826531d00/29438597318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://la-klamm.org/userfiles/file/nuseke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanumed.ro/uploads/files/84777201669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noticky.net/akce/fotky/file/2203097938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abcc4ad6b63---29830806107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kibledergisi.net/resimler/files/pisaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvocato-callegaro.it/public/file/sevomaver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/892e26bcac8720079150602cde25eaa1/34665326775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookkorea.net/userfiles/file/seganatumizufazatiboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21375475003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brickchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78727664017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hrrlp10pkbi2ikp9d7np44bg75/25918900131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/77857265038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8jgkgrigc0t3g36prudmsf6uhq/72470202562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-journal.com/media/file/baxadexeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/589nlcqiuf1ebg100ebc3l9ps3/tekoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nature-revive.org/files/file/34214919560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phubozena.pl/userfiles/file/tutanojetabawavejikarit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenajarisiconstructii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878b9ed58b7---90213232033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=herbal+cosmetics+book+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_off0000dced.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4FF 18068 bytes
SHA-256: caa88b087ce3c84c0670e542029ff91060ab000b144fddc0f4841fa08d3e822d
font_02_sfnt_off000123b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123B4 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 268db65469be933997c3df9a37e0d3a007b8ed40d7a2b15d5f491586ad28dfa4