Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1afefd224c3c07aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 00:21:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d3105665ed5b5b7d665df3b616b6e20d SHA-1: c09664bc339f490d65b9ddcca2810fc0bca295e0 SHA-256: 1afefd224c3c07aa9ec5153599e24be8e4dc57c20232ff21acd7291b6cbb8975
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm, with several pointing to compromised CMS uploads. The embedded JavaScript stream, combined with the heuristic findings of a compromised CMS upload link farm and a link farm on disposable hosting, strongly suggests this document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection further supports its malicious nature, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=smartrip+android+app
    • https://smwebtechnology.com/arishayurveda.com/userfiles/file/51281571899.pdf
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613189587ac35---86233175855.pdf
    • http://www.yemany.com/yemfiles/files/kubakedifevevunobitibov.pdf
    • http://www.beautyvogue.ch/Files/file/vepibifepititibeduwozir.pdf
    • http://www.vako.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/gakujorozixix.pdf
    • https://penmypoem.com/new/admin/uploadfiles/file/68215307497.pdf
    • http://mutamobilya.com/images_upload/files/2583672209.pdf
    • http://studiorumeo.it/userfiles/files/fesinugizumokizidukarijan.pdf
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/887e1b030a50469a9ba82bac6600d0ef/rofonap.pdf
    • http://designbeginnings.com/upload/file/5961139842.pdf
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161379b7dce01f---18016195728.pdf
    • http://www.aaar.cat/assets/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61513225273.pdf
    • https://kuraniterbiye.com/resimler/files/nununubug.pdf
    • http://monthclean.com/uploads/files/202109182156036705.pdf
    • http://belstroyiz.ru/img/file/parukenalu.pdf
    • https://thehideawayresortpattaya.com/userfiles/files/sozilibanam.pdf
    • https://girilawfirm.com/content_files/files/30985566119.pdf
    • https://nutstudio.it/userfiles/file/57476349394.pdf
    • http://vaonhaphatphap.com/images/uploads/files/refiduwowazipipu.pdf
    • https://vantainoidia.vn/ci/userfiles/files/lanexur.pdf
    • https://turkeyinsurance.info/images/file/duwodikozimas.pdf
    • https://foursservices.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/muladewasisumaroseviwor.pdf
    • https://sayurmateng.com/contents/files/27998968415.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d6f9.bin
9366eb03ab951e03267f2143cd778a09e7278fa489bcfb1e5009c4b89816135a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6F9 18784 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000107c8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107C8 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011fdf.bin
a368224eca9d2f301d420442eb3b639ee5c9c193b7be142e73accbd1a249ffe6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FDF 10284 bytes