Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0afedcda80c694cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-08-14 20:36:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 73362b5066d1c3f97a55b491227aacc8 SHA-1: 82d8c8dcb28e3001cc8149e458dc3cee6b10a2b6 SHA-256: 0afedcda80c694ccbb18b2d96c79d849c121133ac2bbc7052030e6d4032312ed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external links and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware delivery attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+harvest+moon+more+friends+of+mineral+town+gba+bahasa+indonesia PDF link annotation
    • http://tipiland.net/upload/file/kuserukutibonifogimos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedreams.cz/files/bubexuwokexuxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camgloberealtor.com/userfiles/file/nakoxenuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160efde9703b95---35668923055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tratedu.net/ssss2018/assets/143ad273/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/userfiles/files/1d4222145c85b5e8d9e909cf5ab394f4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089ef3900826---8810212203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d44833fa98---98493131003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteelephant.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12ef7f9b1d7082692d95e316f19d8ac6/vovamixeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a704884b0---kezupuzarojisesajal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonitomov.com/picture/file/58176950980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4a3a04a983d1bcac6df85309bcc9994/tevovijunazuses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070bcdb8a4ef---sodanuwebutufowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48bba1a31cb685b2bf634027b347e39a/pusediromupagajiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eb12a26974---sepajujufisufofodenevege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca7625c9994bac9ab839e69fbabe68a2/14355139144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f033d1938---83660147031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7551d0e98c---jipefuvikuvojijibowig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okuninka-biale.pl/userfiles/file/mobevitulekuzudarevir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/ligapovigiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97c5cda6d9d1cfb3341dabdb606e49dd/seratiliseritugipilokodus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/71118685796.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_off0000ba5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA5A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d26c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD26C 16120 bytes
SHA-256: 6e4c82cebe085f77236527aa5baa1ec3e651089340f23c949081db6903f8a3fc
font_02_sfnt_off0000fbba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBBA 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 9b68db416d57858d7657675aa6feccc19156853e13b680f4103183b21035978d