Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2afd5fffe71e0fb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-07-08 00:59:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 34ba322d32374e0364e75621f8edc79b SHA-1: b43d6e0f9a2b8ecb01fa57146cb9c68d75eca32d SHA-256: 2afd5fffe71e0fb33f3f449bd0d93622aa699a8f0f9f508f805bf20ffe6f9554
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm strategy. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the rationale is based on the heuristic findings and URL analysis.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://51-lq.com/userfiles/file///zotuwagewurumulidugefiwu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nanyangtextile.com/userfiles/file/jitukudiwonamamalem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fa-vietnam.com/webroot/img/files/4458307384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio-september.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e14cd07d1c2966cb1ff9811a9d37c365/pilakuworib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kvl6kn7ac91j1bipcs5nf8j4ka/42504580100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soles2walk.cz/data/file/vokinode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c661b30ae3---jolotete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investin-khj.ir/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71121114706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160899d879a5bf---zotesufudelijesuvipopiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a7c726c12---42307112671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7dbf652e0---27232050202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e17c2ffae---luridukarexasojirevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i3k8japsnmun6rvjrue2adktse/4452007418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86dancgni4peo1t9ov3kdobfa4/42548746669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b86384594---xuturavefemuxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c763b97a41---gewov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival-bg.com/media/ckuploads/files/fogodaxalapinoxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160968c2f0d02a---93115733736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dac43ec55991d6adc0510f12661075c9/85730679397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noihoithanhtuan.com/media/ftp/file/nujudazagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b79f72dd078---96726543417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tractorpulling-emmeloord.nl/upload/file/97957762939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safeabortionnepal.com/userfiles/file/diputugabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prastosten.se/anvandarbilder/95/files/17137863204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.centralperdana.com/file/15379866191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=mastering+positional+chess+pdfPDF 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_off0000f4d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4D9 17396 bytes
SHA-256: 609c45f545708ddfc7c0d275dfa4952c09b70ab15d5e8e5bd58f217cd1f3764e
font_01_sfnt_off00012242.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12242 10892 bytes
SHA-256: ca4bb8446f8bd9fa82b43b15e0699ca2a48389d877027c861d49aabebce6a551
font_02_sfnt_off00013b2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B2F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1