Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8afc24fa017d9148…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 04:54:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8fa5e2c9df05ac048f129a50f8a6d9c8 SHA-1: 373b02a1100f7f44ab79574e16d9707e698fbf4c SHA-256: 8afc24fa017d9148fb7f54ed68d6587d7917e3002c5afda9efbe705b41b1751a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan variant. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, likely serving as a lure for users seeking free books. The presence of external URIs and a link farm structure indicates an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, potentially for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=stress+management+books+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e26ef2a8a---7018722176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyagi.chi-kara.net/Upload/files/gowazokupavet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikkeempat.com/contents//files/90907121490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdoby-betonowe21.pl/Upload/file/wegafomafisezoxuviveto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae298c4db37---7903341058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f620ac8c0e4f5e267fda41fc69bf5f60/57279873280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsk-nalogov.net/upload/files/rezubakufinetepoguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2m2design.com/userfiles/7649337791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16113afd1a37fe---27157374716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alisawedding.com/upload/users/files/zamebadunevave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peilimineko.com/userfiles/file/xaganibabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilltoplancers1975.com/clients/13753/File/39980329580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/50781621802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7oa3j91fcigqlepduoipivhp15/17718352578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moristas.com/userfiles/files/podokixeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esprimagroup.com/userfiles/file/dawemam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf64063c62---jidawodinawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panziofabian.hu/fck_kepek/jazexasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.net/userfiles/files/miwajas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icloudcleaners.com/uploads/account/autoresponderfiles/xizubasojiratepivulun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4f0cf2ee6929c09f9f7019c279902eb/zexusofemifojidemipuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relans-nn.ru/images/docs/file/99776434591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ht-cooling-j3t.com/contents//files/wefekepasiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/22595455264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3jug5t4v9jmeuefjjs3p1tu9a4/89740602524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eaf43c7697---75304060664.pdfIn 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
    • 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_off0000ee2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE2C 17260 bytes
SHA-256: 17a5bedff0bb41d5b57d9bfcf36af42ca5bcdbdfb21f3772d620045548b333fb
font_01_sfnt_off00011b14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B14 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001332b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1332B 11140 bytes
SHA-256: bfbb8622caf9ddcac260ca3ff3c5ffd88b830d0233e8585ad6060fd063002daf