Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2afbb095f69af3ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-07-14 04:55:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 244fab99d0820280d930269cf0d3b0f6 SHA-1: 0e58a00d94fb0929ba3d61ee0730b376ae5bd7d4 SHA-256: 2afbb095f69af3aebacad00301def7f2a0f7bbe57c4f6e7ed3bffaf36e03fb9b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the PDF format itself can be leveraged for malicious purposes, potentially including the execution of embedded JavaScript.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://thuexe7cho.vn/upload/files/82122773933.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://epoxidice.ro/mm/file/rigovumabaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24cvety.ru/upload/files/17627588687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ms-beauty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/werirulaxasowumovelekevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb7a7e695f9e558b7604f7045d52dc0a/31814515893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukrainski-rosyjski.pl/userfiles/file/15637331381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belgium-ex.com/images/blog//file/25443766275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1ad8b072f7---fogizixunopezebewemup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e9fec45c4d---60432342984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e9htmric2go53a5rppnqd0m3t/jomavetetevadupuloriraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rpb5qkpqdp8nbkti6av26sjhro/99088742638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingsfinancialconsulting.com/userfiles/file/lunirupodopasovuzop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoman.cz/data/file/wixumuvotonozufifor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://web68s.com/upload/files/nenosupuparosojoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hccc252.ca/clients/e/e4/e484b38507f190a955b66748903449e1/File/76143709523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/80028796617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3409c0aad9---98512673757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b03056dff5---jamarewukawasivuvix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3dde9cc4bb---bikitubugaler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b442ad13b---gixadazidotisegopove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b40d405a35e---74407651250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4975f68cb2a76cc9ef260f1bdc6143e/movimawabilonopun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=best+build+for+doctor+dead+by+daylightPDF 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_off0000f61c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF61C 18308 bytes
SHA-256: e61c5490c1be0544944a3cd930424ca8ba83dfc527e84d7d879b00a9826b15fd
font_01_sfnt_off0001266a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1266A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013e81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E81 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 08cd5a8a754b10ba72e7fb5e7f714186aba80405b80602cbf1c9a3bed8eca961