Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8afe6ac45cf934af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-12 04:29:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2da097f8e5338355e8754d9ef85afda7 SHA-1: 2ee629429dd2f2d54c09c01be0d88859ac434b1d SHA-256: 8afe6ac45cf934af8fbe00a7412649e5551db9757d9f86606c1518f0ad4d1c5b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. These URLs likely serve as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content, such as phishing pages or further malware downloads. The presence of these links and the overall structure suggest an attempt to exploit users through deceptive means.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=andy+emulator+mac
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613130e12b588---58891231376.pdf
    • http://sungwoneng.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/jakejexoziwukudonopir.pdf
    • https://www.totspotdaynursery.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/piziwozafifedatav.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613319ecec515---45622479104.pdf
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e2276b610c8655d4498d363f029d467/90943104186.pdf
    • http://roomyab.ir/basefile/roomyabir/files/96548013571.pdf
    • http://7166867.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69542391103.pdf
    • http://chuabenhxuongkhop24h.com/images/files/2169856779.pdf
    • http://bmfjhjk.friend-match.com/upload/files/73583506363.pdf
    • http://systemsbiology.at/uploads/assets/file/xuzepak.pdf
    • https://dom4m.lv/userfiles/files/58785458186.pdf
    • http://annabarons.com/files/files/nobuxesizovibagujojukibo.pdf
    • http://sinosteelcode.com/filespath/files/20210910092312.pdf
    • https://ags-car.60km.com/upload/files/13853637443.pdf
    • https://varbackaforskola.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lanufarajeti.pdf
    • http://cppzone.ru/users/blogs/file/8215541290.pdf
    • http://safaraval.com/basefile/safaravalcom/files/zutowufa.pdf
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b5ea18263---figomesud.pdf
    • http://jinruily.com/UploadFile/file/20210903001104898.pdf
    • http://vhz.cz/user-files/84627203252.pdf
    • https://embassyinvietnam.com/webroot/img/files/ximil.pdf
    • https://sunnyrosesschool.com/userfiles/file/75637496321.pdf
    • http://djk-winkel.de/images/uploads/file/jeletuwavuxuleropexozad.pdf
    • 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_off0000dfe4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFE4 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7f6.bin
b596ad1ec5f0c39c145ebb2f190473ce42ae46b6a1b7126c506f323534361734
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7F6 17340 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001251a.bin
e24576e0a43e43d592255f294c0d4a4d5272e10924c81599b9127dce2b121a4c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1251A 10464 bytes