Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4afcfa86ddbd1e2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-06-05 09:57:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 8ec7b8067a3ebbb1821a2a2a0178bdaf SHA-1: 40b72a82eef251d3a2cb733016814673a634b131 SHA-256: 4afcfa86ddbd1e2caf12e10fb87bd11d22a0a7515b0d7070f06dc772bfef6994
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to online games, suggesting a phishing or redirection attack. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters indicate an attempt to drive traffic to potentially malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+fortnite+dances+on+roblox PDF link annotation
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/548beac9c0681f548e38cb28f2de9cea/16529150640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tee4ce7a71a6fsu62lrv8tumo8/dugometupireti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/80037510720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d1291acc6e07afb82b8f2ea393a3044/71223961192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606caa8e26c23---biroxesojitakuwuwozolig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac9015b69fe---moroliwipufimovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01qnv8uu32ben8b5aaruodt33e/suraforunamupumidazomafep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f369c1849c---bonebetukama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ea08aa7d46---marab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bcbfdbb9d4---36076084523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6fabca3792---57630252328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a946d85fbfb---kapitovijeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c88e9bcf0397d3102109b15a8574563/74513322515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072aadf9c94c---rujagakewixagifavedol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0b199b1633---jivonamaruneme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC35 6440 bytes
SHA-256: a606a6dede3b99472d2ac97761204782646b5f75106b48d1abccbe9a99ca9a4c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC29 5236 bytes
SHA-256: 4bf339c726c8512eb20212412065856da2116458874985a00da5a1fd6da8e45b
font_02_sfnt_off00010e18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E18 13164 bytes
SHA-256: df62a73fcbf33ac8ef6995aff4ce0bee76863519f6d3392bedc5f62db3e3e507
font_03_sfnt_off000138aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138AA 16592 bytes
SHA-256: 66e49f77e8ce1f8334a7d44c24227533e45d770f6c6eead4eb966a435f6468ad
font_04_sfnt_off00014f9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F9E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2