Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af06ca824a04a785…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-10 12:48:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 772755caed4ec7a6e0f7f31aa119358f SHA-1: fdf9de1794eb62292ea7a9120cdc8f663e0c517a SHA-256: af06ca824a04a785db02ceed65b7eba461f424d3f57d2fdc59f2563f301c4c6d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://apskarota.org/userfiles/file/34015928188.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.medicellbank.com/userfiles/files/33827050784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613646d52d086---92658071443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613190ac8c2dc---18503691137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvet-trefontane.eu/userfiles/files/javiripimel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ausztriasi.spawellness.hu/upload/hirlevel/files/vesizujisatujagope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serting.eu/userfiles/files/99536055479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dansobentre.net/uploads/file/xikakaraxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterina-hrib.cz/user-uploads/files/wuxagovezax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinghui.co/upload/ckimg/files/202109080910364867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/deaecd1a335dc363d0670c69e201ce1f/nolenegig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanquinoafamily.com/shopadmin/upload/files/74952252868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cifphosteleriayturismo.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94823832542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135face731e1---zanizobajonagol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariabilancino.it/userfiles/files/60095728294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acsalma.hu/userfiles/files/24184230866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dp75hmlnflsffuvr7la31dgcbn/zutowudevixemukategezinad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haozuowenwang.com/imagefiles/file/52977053516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flygarfield.net/userfiles/file/sagezixerilegubiwam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicopharm.com/upload/files/tolit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.it/uploads/ck_editor/files/lefari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/68996850826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=clock+vault+apkPDF 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_off0000d663.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD663 10060 bytes
SHA-256: aafc59642f3c7f6a4c77df443c77833970f3e287020c84f3ed11254c6b3ad1d3
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECF7 18016 bytes
SHA-256: 58ecf1a5675a53e0a8a53e3e3ab56b3e839d9071edb46ec87015cdd8aa2bf80b
font_02_sfnt_off00011c4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1