Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2af1b6ffa544c03c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 19:08:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e98f0398ce94571b810df55eabaf3ec2 SHA-1: 5c728609d4de1e4a086fef09c4559a3d19af2bbe SHA-256: 2af1b6ffa544c03cccd501bb5a5643306ddbef237f5e93d075e9aa2b8a3417bb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, indicating an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful websites. The presence of compromised CMS upload links and disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=game+faster+apk
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a3dcb3947d---tanixopos.pdf
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d2a15af73a---xegekoxalobup.pdf
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/ririt.pdf
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161381d59d7bbc---musefokuferimigotalasat.pdf
    • http://markone-tools.com/upload/files/fixipokipasan.pdf
    • https://tortugafilms.ca/adminfiles/file/80891413889.pdf
    • http://elverum-revmatiker.no/images/file/6575754635.pdf
    • http://mutamobilya.com/images_upload/files/40632343930.pdf
    • http://vdtonline.vn/static/uploads/editor/files/faparatugud.pdf
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137b13a26b09---jawavagamixipi.pdf
    • http://snbedu.com/uploadfile/file///2021090906330762.pdf
    • http://nyitotthaz.hu/userfiles/files/69137962357.pdf
    • http://lishasurgical.in/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6716929114.pdf
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139a36ac8c22---79087433800.pdf
    • http://baikalspring.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96917903980.pdf
    • http://tvoirostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zetamilubiminetipedoxuvok.pdf
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s6oc61c295o7gekta7hd81gn2t/29744962806.pdf
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/75596908734.pdf
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161401fcbc70bb---tinoxedowepixilovunake.pdf
    • http://tranhdaquydep.vn/upload/files/69932873444.pdf
    • http://moskvaznaet.ru/upload/files/84807859286.pdf
    • https://dorfadvertising.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38407640733.pdf
    • https://letstravelforacause.com/miet/assets/files/zirej.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_off0000d2a8.bin
769d931e98344491b61866b3629d18c5387425d680a4f7f038d798e8dfcd82ed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2A8 10288 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9e9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9E9 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000101fb.bin
7eca4e587ebd3d8a89afe0b349fa3d22e768fe157c12cd5838a08c422b274937
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101FB 18688 bytes