Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2af5077a7fae2e26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-15 12:46:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 9fdabcf00e84fe785a6ea87ba9bc160a SHA-1: 5c558e5937b23a9bcb38d6f4908c174c13d3ddce SHA-256: 2af5077a7fae2e2632ccf9ba77b126fce44a95f546fa56fa4e2695b72d7d2142
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with several URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its direct content, but the overall structure and URL analysis point to a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.stock2morrow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93369064411.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://akvaguru.hu/user/file/54675953249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debandhelder.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50402890844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xpeedon.net/userfiles/file/20210906184843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interwork.sk/userfiles/file/vopilezaboxobugutokij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodoan.net/userfiles/file/pogetip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130e78540c48---33216978973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketphatthinh.vn/upload/files/99194440950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132602a74e01---durafazebar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://factorycontrolprojects.com/userfiles/file/wotizukugitubiletiwugifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132dddedc6c8---73997104677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.halpellet.hu/userfiles/files/rupozujowimexuxogano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferropula.hr/files/46389340534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alteredcompta.com/buddha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64627741874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c529a52fbe6cb6c09eb273eb7ca669b/samojumaputuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thucphamchucnangmy.vn/uploads/files/gowubuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatrangpalacehotel.com/app/webroot/upload/files/rigitabanijagapumitatobug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ost-fogging.com/upload/files/ferifulagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cabsfromheathrow.com/userfiles/file/72781831789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casms.org/atts/news-files/file/50090541927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.santamyoga.be/images/file/sokegunemujisexuxonepuwed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editora-arara-azul.com.br/site/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruriweseladakekuzojonodev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agronlogistics.com/userfiles/files/sumofevisisizeremedaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139dea2dbc13---liderajiluminu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytalk7.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/rutejuzibogekikiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=configurar+apn+claro+uruguayPDF 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_off0000d5b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5B1 10500 bytes
SHA-256: d188316e248be06441c23874de1f1bbfe7e9e92897d84574dc1d876e0b9bcd95
font_01_sfnt_off0000edb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDB7 18836 bytes
SHA-256: 8317a79447a2967c52f08ab87af841c489a38f89de695a457334227415774dd8
font_02_sfnt_off00011e4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E4B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1