Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af04fff72c297813…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 03:17:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 25619d54df5dbda48513ad5ba6e0edb3 SHA-1: 1e055e5a7bb6e01c38819bd8d4822f16cd664714 SHA-256: af04fff72c2978131ddd8b62ea58754ee1986e66e3e6b8fd91de46cc82de5dee
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a QR-code lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+android+package+tracking+app PDF link annotation
    • https://capital-publishing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lajavapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muahohangnhat.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/98588908607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franciscojaviermoreno.com/DocsCKeditor/files/nupamusediku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhiringisamsankalimandir.org/userfiles/file/pelidegojejilofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://77owship.netsociality.com/upload/files/pulimosubotani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e864d368cf---libojapodalarogezawiruxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pass-eco-energies.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rividamafugemativa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139cd82f3082---83894632508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htlexpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24081174946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karaari.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/zamujes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79776974774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elger.cz/fckphotos/file/niveruxubinatuxusobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiaranannini.com/userfiles/files/jukujiwoxesuwurovizebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banderlogclub.ru/Files/file/xoloko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rnralpha.cz/res/file/47758128368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efuegypt.org/userfiles/file/lavunogatepemuteseja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homestationrealty.com/userfiles/files/timipidarifazubawenodet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/80127277461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scherzerpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/24950856907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161371c4504251---950419540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pomtco.com/technical/files/file/lasisemigorufut.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_off0000e995.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE995 17952 bytes
SHA-256: a3ca08787a8ba86dffe98b79d712eef34c4f35f20d35a21a6c99e57e0c2ceec1
font_01_sfnt_off0001180d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1180D 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 717be3d6bb38b96b354cbfb713e7c5b7b7d72b0ac1af12cf6840ce177c9f1b75
font_02_sfnt_off000130db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1