Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5af4e7065b392347…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 23:21:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 2498051bedb27cd928cfbeeb6f1634b8 SHA-1: 7fcfc1b9a698d441a27089d86c87fb35aee22f29 SHA-256: 5af4e7065b3923476a9ce4d8996f05a94316b0b2701c98cb8dad5091000317ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories. The embedded URLs are designed to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://iswii.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nabolowifimalunuxuma.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://riondene.ch/img/uploads/file/93494461870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/057630662320c53678bca71e1d82862d/3325945064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2c9a211d07---jovivesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renetravel.ro/images/files/29525313487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36448831928a04579e5fab95c0123c0d/84692450253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd6243f1a81---42140613860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1303690bdef147f60aaea79f07a8e67/kapudidikajigubifamezaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tareeapartment.com/user_img/files/tanebegovotuninab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wedding-ideas.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sejefuxibiwufelagutelegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzzwchem.com/upload/files/50256101408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4bacbf186---86412669213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyswimpool.com/userfiles/61483407033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sharise.net/Uploadfiles/files/65044470019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fidelishospice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65381022816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brezov-gaj.si/uporabnik/file/xojitalilimowagamugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findmealocalpainter.com/insurazon/admin/userfiles/file/sumowukokisukakivafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/55799359115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://codecs.ro/images/file/sibefulonuvuredor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c863d1bcd3---95508388026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transport-vehicules.fr/userfiles/file/todupobibijofenabuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopassarotti.it/userfiles/files/17725542900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/kexatifijutudenakas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5thaveseniors.org/userfiles/file/5848558315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=doctor+who+tardis+type+40+instruction+manual+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_off0000f07f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF07F 11384 bytes
SHA-256: b4a5f071101048aa35e1cb45c574b68f4eca9a086de6ad2083fcec7ec00a0ec4
font_01_sfnt_off00010b3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B3E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012350.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12350 18068 bytes
SHA-256: 55a7f7d17f94094409e6f36c688f972b64ed8174a8bcadba9a183812e7cede5a