Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5af01e455cc65466…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 20:16:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c81473badc7200ecbcaf044d017e69fa SHA-1: 6d8ca3cf7bf13249053d6a0e8ea77fe8c32a6005 SHA-256: 5af01e455cc654666af190f47ae6e32b7e21b600cac72c2c2e3b24c2478642d9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating embedded JavaScript and a link farm. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to execute malicious code or redirect the user. The link farm points to other PDF files hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a multi-stage attack or phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://ateliergermain.club/sites/default/files/file/23932942080.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://handsonmontessoripk.com/userfiles/files/gosanevarerosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxethai38.com/upload/file/supofudakaxubemiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giayviettri.com/img-ftec/files/depaxazulutogesunerugufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613882df98b9f---90927460182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fishhabitatnetwork.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54892140491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thienthaopc.com/upload/FCK/file/wonotobesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhavanarayanaswamy.org/userfiles/file/76638461733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongphuchuytai.com/upload/files/gefenanomoziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artwatch.ru/userfiles/file/93726536830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://women-for-marriage.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14426594506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buka.ru/sadm_files/28125736190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karmakonnect.org/DrumiBhatt/karmakonnect.org/Final/ckeditorimage/files/39750178124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czernavendeghaz.hu/admin1/file/xemolak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.com/upload/editor/file/72083707281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jacenter.org/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/galixufudosuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samowar.me/upload/file/75308986475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatishev.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuxoruvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--3e0b556bhrbowi6undva.com/ckupload/files/rutodekip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oio.cn/uploadfiles/files/duxadenokaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/387cabe77ce6be35db110ac52e24cfb7/2510019584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endobible.com/userfiles/file/mejofovug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkmeiqi.com/admin/ckfinder/upfile/files/48832706385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdqrbb7qu1qs7fpj0f5k8i4hta/wogonuden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audidalys.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71236004710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=learning+hadoop+2+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_off0000e372.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE372 18096 bytes
SHA-256: 5802fd6445aabfd602ad07bb5246bb283551a606eca9f9cd77dc3a547e4bf67b
font_01_sfnt_off00011200.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11200 10540 bytes
SHA-256: b987ad7bafd906537b234c72e16cb152ec6ec4c135d34f546c214566e9d8d28d
font_02_sfnt_off000129b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1