Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8afb42fede408041…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 10:23:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8a00115d56f152fd50dea06072e1221d SHA-1: 67226ddc836d6f4adee9703f51fd905ff47cf30a SHA-256: 8afb42fede408041b746e5a7360bc186ff6c7a6bd8f8f7c19b9f965ef02c1dcb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4f5531e1a---tuniviz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://agt.es/files/galeria2/files/11548850456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-bahia-real-estate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jijafitivivepupovag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608497f65a8bf---wusabutebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornerstonelaw.eu/userfiles//file/betoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magyaringatlanadatbazis.hu/dev/_user/file/81283687626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a87b0103f8b---26061104728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161131ec21d66d---bapijomurabapiwusivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buckleyfamilyofdarling.net/clients/0/01/017bf228c8331327bdfb67b1798bff80/File/sezafexifoxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workcoop.org/fckeditor/userimages/file/20210816155318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunpower.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95898334275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turar-mussin.com/userfiles/File/40500935003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-kursk.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/jojomijotijotibivik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611e44619503a---81223106115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mysilo.com/upload/ckfinder/files/31899980927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emaaravm.net/upload/files/pevivesolazaxizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toanlinh.vn/upload/files/52983494220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-spec.ru/userfiles/file/kupadagezumofasanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raiporjai.com/piceditor/file/66564993939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c0nnd9h4p8ro8g51grr5jq7l5/21207643275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877d1feb0ec---betetepabufegop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6cc9a6bfba5f43c7d24c3471178a521/28013785951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71tf3r363mo1711sdd2ig7b31g/kifarebidusagaribum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075579100baf---49305080884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doctmcooper.com/userfiles/files/junejol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=orgoglio+e+pregiudizio+analisi+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_off000145a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145A9 10760 bytes
SHA-256: b72c19ab12d2734f585a3c3bac626a45c341ad535a1db00232e9cb06de4e8fa0
font_01_sfnt_off00015e5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15E5B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001766d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1766D 19072 bytes
SHA-256: 14a1d3b33ff9c4e007e691830470890559438909b14c06c1ed3bec2092ecdce1