Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2afc1f0402b65870…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-10-06 02:01:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 3e3dbad2d1892850a2036172ffb4ddbd SHA-1: 3438139139000445d0c99d350859a06c5648f078 SHA-256: 2afc1f0402b658704225585b581c9b579e2018b1e4eafd31c2cf9e357691cfc1
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The sample was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload locations and other disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs and link farm structure strongly suggest an attempt to deliver malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=symantec+endpoint+protection+11+manual+update PDF link annotation
    • https://maria-galland.ru/files/file/fomefevuvoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133a9c9379d5---78554853325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovesenergy.nl/file/jodemagun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aal.tw/uploads/htmlupload/files/64385991896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuvanluatdanang.com/upload/ck/files/zaxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/41917436775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appextskihjthj.handysociality.com/upload/files/konajabitumifoxumeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/33017432408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://concertwristband.com/resimler/files/niratedixowuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tul28461p1emulfn9jdre5uji5/buwimopagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcstonetw.com/uploads/files/202109020210534165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pqclass.kr/imgs/file/63561204905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ff5b79ece9---lasikogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a1-automotivegroup.com/upload/files/jutalulabano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161525029aab99---98368992583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamachine.nl/userfiles/file/49539512300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shangrilatheshow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nemanukolofom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomlight.pl/_bloom/file/norixire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/onf2avk496thmp31k5j0714b35/soxufovewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yucekalipmakina.com/tsrm1/img/userfiles/file/zufoguzivofupuvevuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.pl/userfiles/file/86992820522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-nice.com/upload/files/47379877439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615c6372cce61---24602765804.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_off0000e0b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0B9 18828 bytes
SHA-256: 997061d42e83ad92a184c4912a63916dbde944684365ba61449ac56e886c7951
font_01_sfnt_off000112e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112E6 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 123bb6c8565f642ebc47010b9205a5d768547a3fd789d6ebb14f30f94f62a067
font_02_sfnt_off00012bfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BFB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1