Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5afd8bd0ac4d3bac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-09-16 17:28:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 34d2b1290a3c17641fdba9ef61dca3c6 SHA-1: f4f0c30bd36c8c297fd16229d78bd0c5aaf2362e SHA-256: 5afd8bd0ac4d3bacf78f94f7d03cb0ec23ab0ab86b2d3f6b39dfee308e729f00
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as a lure to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malware, as suggested by the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142b6c3d0ca5---45849560227.pdf
    • http://mothertheresapublicschool.com/userfiles/file/gokifulazojiwumusakavat.pdf
    • https://ever-progress.dacola.com/upload/files/72861964261.pdf
    • http://www.temaricerca.com/entry2013new/admindia/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41784867371.pdf
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cad4be51971ae0081d5d91238215b72/litofufuvopoza.pdf
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bb5d5b0d98---57558030899.pdf
    • http://music-summer-courses.eu/upload/files/riwuvalodalazinu.pdf
    • http://tai-yang.tw/taiyang/upload/file/nupirejanedipix.pdf
    • http://jca-t.com/fck_image/file/51350429596.pdf
    • https://majubesar.net/contents/files/gavedamigutamotaneru.pdf
    • http://aldobini.it/userfiles/files/96820879946.pdf
    • https://iasvn.org/Images_upload/files/67694699069.pdf
    • https://sportsht.com/userfiles/file/pinigoxupavapobisig.pdf
    • https://kfk-dekoration.dk/images/uploadedimages/file/84938244711.pdf
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b34ea49fca161a00610876114978eca0/43144004523.pdf
    • https://vongtaytramhuong.vn/upload/files/224981876.pdf
    • http://www.frank-diagn.hu/userfiles/files/gekadevubonimimum.pdf
    • http://teewer.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29554978707.pdf
    • http://www.psychophonie-tarbes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87376119258.pdf
    • https://phuketwebstudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pufegorelovepuvox.pdf
    • https://pierrelemagicien.com/userfiles/file/34805076998.pdf
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ddd4e205f35cd093c1ad3aa38fa4772/fakodekapasagebomaba.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=air+receiver+pro+apk
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c3f0.bin
fe3eabab5799ddbf0bc6a25ebb3e2af4989fdebfe8a8a7d8c33e975a6380b233
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3F0 20176 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8d3.bin
652ae9c463e45c5fdd0222127efd4d129c79afd86b18b7be27b054b1309a58d3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8D3 10092 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010f78.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F78 16792 bytes