Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af067e5e4a32e66b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-06-26 04:00:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f0d31f8ebfad5d751abb60a1869e2850 SHA-1: a37f54e9561728c63e6a1c94c9dcc2e14330a607 SHA-256: af067e5e4a32e66b573ff79307eadd5d9a305b9f4f208ccfd79d8dd18da9c4e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories, which in turn host other PDF files. This suggests a multi-stage attack, likely for phishing or distributing further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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 http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f338074aa5---16234923768.pdf
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b97aafb3a---58285448972.pdf
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca825955f1---salezopovema.pdf
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e66edccb65---23936231125.pdf
    • https://erdenetpost.mn/userfiles/files/xaboxumawifotude.pdf
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3m93tmu9dniqjhu0qrf0bt3es9/65342611320.pdf
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1ab8b03f84dd46c6660cc7b6b6d3f40/5954744879.pdf
    • https://lbassicurazioni.it/file/33659130345.pdf
    • http://stardentalcare.org/userfiles/file/titakojowidugi.pdf
    • http://shosholoza.de/file/zifefabat.pdf
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ff2831dd1---16249965141.pdf
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5a68497500---wimepitewufakewulize.pdf
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/et6mb1o5qpm09ond1n5npfmav3/goxusomeramar.pdf
    • http://thedreams.cz/files/zosejikisokorolagiwuze.pdf
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-15/20210515191559783664.pdf
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bcb3ee4e1f---kukosasi.pdf
    • https://altbuket.ru/files/77932298729.pdf
    • http://appletechsolutions.com/userfiles/file/bumopadokiren.pdf
    • https://birsamundapark.in/userfiles/files/16780924614.pdf
    • http://www.bandungmesin.com/file/batupikewemelilufifuroban.pdf
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab14079ea3d---85861053742.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=wind+poem+by+ted+hughes+questions+and+answers
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000baed.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAED 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d304.bin
5709f795383ab04bbae844396afa7407ef82504db55b740022782372b3a07f3a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD304 11372 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000eceb.bin
4e83d44af430d918de4d076a429acfd62b77277c9cc0678986c7962748765d0c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECEB 15304 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000113e9.bin
bfc7ce51a1a9b37382af61f0075eb0cdb972126da031002d338643432d80e6e4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113E9 16252 bytes