Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af02ed99830a302f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-08-18 22:55:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8a3c89f972b00b8351c0c236e392c4ae SHA-1: 47506d7a5aeeac945f36ebfec454ec6fc6470e26 SHA-256: af02ed99830a302f27abe10611abdade42540cd92519ef53e8af165254dd6109
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external URIs and link farm indicators strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://dm288.com/slicice/file/90437653730.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rymwid-training.com/userfiles/file/27520266016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d581e474ae---rivaniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608445f0604fc---xusoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/wemezadanofot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acmemask.com/upfiles/editor/files/dikuwolovorinor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bachova-terapia.sk/images/file/nudusupanovunavuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ab74636bc520a7e403db2e1e430f897/38247098556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b91577b10f7---koxagasugaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100eebb48f08---89860704906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af827964c0---96496229666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v2da82kd4ru0ig6t11s1pksmfn/fuxeloretoxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abc62dcc2cb---keleperefanup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bednidhitraders.com/userfiles/file/81331022742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac216631364---gosufuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a592b45816b---29050305527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u93gi8rg6gkml3gmm49gmic8vv/muwozudigebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vsetinrally.cz/userfiles/file/71010085225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithaca1961.com/clients/875375/File/vezabejepunumuwakivokev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techson-cctv.com/upload/file/47147784094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hermandadperdon.es/userfiles/file/20553111604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a9fd6b7c6---xudizapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/001f6d1a4fecf15f6e15743fb405b9c6/98456928857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trunglam.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/tufiwukomusudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st03.it/userfiles/files/98016987042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=interpreta%C3%A7%C3%A3o+de+texto+com+descritores+ensino+medioPDF 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_off0000cd00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD00 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e517.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE517 11148 bytes
SHA-256: 362959d06796ac0298d39fda0603413a5b129dbb391fda0a9346b7df64193872
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE6D 17996 bytes
SHA-256: f6afa0f22cec64d024fdd1ea02f45ffde88d21e3e4bcc4ea85e3d3660ceadf03