Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af0bcf1f024bafd6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.7 KB Created: 2021-09-20 10:15:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: bb24f7ea4ba7c228ad4a468e3b14e952 SHA-1: 41ee9964c4f1cddc19fb3159d3753f37c203ec3d SHA-256: af0bcf1f024bafd64d6eb7d1c68340fd1f89f50e914fc21636e5c4c9b211ed22
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to other PDF files hosted on various domains. Several heuristics indicate this is a link farm, with some URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO spam.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9877

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://nevisnews.com/userfiles/gepofabanifetapov.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://beytarimcilik.com/admin/editor_resim/file/79520791153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polymadeniyaglar.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/72752619130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/file/8378847864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rickgrisolia.com/userfiles/files/54747187204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24horasnoar.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zodisafoxabamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pasaru.com/upload/files/toguzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.around.hu/files/article/file/7374604522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://warungmimpishio.com/contents/files/13825889801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machinesupplier.cn/data/product/file/202197_135713_229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140487821cee---63468138172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitplus.eu/userfiles/file/53099648387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirpub.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85680913563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldfieldssanddrags.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24971712535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariorigolon.eu/userfiles/files/18380505775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taichielite.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79626155855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufcnagykanizsa.hu/userfiles/file/domenisepenaseval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ff5fccf71f---29823279427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thienanglass.vn/upload/files/tixawasojevifamajut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodchambergolf.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3605621078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maksimetall.ru/files/luponajozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147c944c4d7f---32936169813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qpeuc8lhb1p3mml6h7sfd5bb64/kezir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telecycling.org/files/file/toloperotegute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eea120f6bb---73178375953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-dron.cz/data/file/85209389365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=pratiyogita+darpan+economics+special+issue+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off00011bc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BC4 20604 bytes
SHA-256: 3ffaa58e42229b9e75e746f18ef555bfa710bafe2146a4e320a20513b22c68c9
font_01_sfnt_off0001521b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1521B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016a32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16A32 11264 bytes
SHA-256: 4c7474615a2923e48ad140cc1b1f803f915c68007cb2dc85d9e03272a3e4d43c