Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0afc99ab0fbad4c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 11:56:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d8d4eb9f3e539c09f159e79d3816676d SHA-1: c19064821930f31d0c0edf201a72bbc9d6740211 SHA-256: 0afc99ab0fbad4c05a39dcc127f5a8b53696cd544a33183fc11dde8126ef3401
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a PDF link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple unknown URLs further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adff9684e231fb6205d96c9fa5af9a23/zixajogudezekulam.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804b3d7716c---77672670780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girilawfirm.com/content_files/files/34274063969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b437164bbbf---sobezasibirerutofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://embassyinvietnam.com/webroot/img/files/8910856694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7b9285602---wadetubesototonawonivili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianphoiduyloimodel.com/Images_upload/files/nunirusotiwodukolideg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073500429657---bekulomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/67928574857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-4/20210504083235659753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cce8d4aebd---22624133092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f0ac30521e---94891963306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3el3132e5vaae9ckj7d40ghg9j/1531384923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd9c0b0512a7ae927fcf3980f3b3d459/40547994862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquamedia.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62022580605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ceabo3uu23d2aqs09lk18gq4jq/69471246984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1aaebajlcgx.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/42776719033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608123854f826---28178444799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/651452e84e1901cc35e82d1ec33b744e/43388235134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d2f771009---moxapuneropedofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d84f83mttjhlkcq35crgq0h512/zajiwogikebanup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///dojigudotonixawoguduzosoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwong-cheong.com/userfiles/jajoruluxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meyergarden.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/likawivusofuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=i+know+this+much+is+true+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fe13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE13 17364 bytes
SHA-256: a23eb25a0e1a78e0f064064201810cc307c836afef02b323c0709d8b767d4020
font_01_sfnt_off00012b43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B43 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 99e5e58b7f98e6258090aa23fc586470547f1ace3169e2b94af06633547fe488
font_02_sfnt_off0001445b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1445B 16632 bytes
SHA-256: e896d0c9c6509c93731645541c0836c845742b74f7fde2e8ff5e94baacc6a6a0
font_03_sfnt_off00015bec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15BEC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1