Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af0c58a83a8c97f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-08-07 00:01:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: aa73654e87db301d3949925b76cef967 SHA-1: 52a5297a0704c0b34274fac1de6a5029d021974e SHA-256: af0c58a83a8c97f617c0224b26486cfe56f60fae6527da9d5a62b357bdf98dbd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating it's designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or malware distribution vector. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests a pattern of hosting malicious content on vulnerable websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9876

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+you+get+free+avakin+coins
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12ec1efa9e67c9ce475bd0c7294b9111/62040034561.pdf
    • http://appletechsolutions.com/userfiles/file/potabotirapadew.pdf
    • http://doktor-okonski.pl/uploadimg/file/taxudofuxadixoreretojona.pdf
    • https://www.info-service.com.tw/plugin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wanuvalufusul.pdf
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b499ee719e575b2c9898e5a0e640ad6/toginiwitoruluxuriw.pdf
    • http://italiangreyhound.pl/img1/userfiles/file/zover.pdf
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e33e1b3959---rarupopizujenafawajupajo.pdf
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/636aeb1fc99fa588eee3db68c48e1c53/zoboredujijopiminotojuto.pdf
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/lotutufoxadoza.pdf
    • https://ensegun2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nedozukodabawabozu.pdf
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/lavuwiwe.pdf
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c4a08ad3a1---kepufopexaporijafufowibi.pdf
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54ac12ec652769980874d04208a0cdc5/misasetunisodokupumode.pdf
    • http://kagoshimakojintaxi.com/userfiles/file/gijokitiwuxigenisirumino.pdf
    • https://juniorclublivorno.com/sitonews/images_upload/files/99098945395.pdf
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d090697d1aa---31150638095.pdf
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7949bf1b1---82653775599.pdf
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8fc0d49571---66402469197.pdf
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ecdbf3538---rivoroxuwupomezasaki.pdf
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ef941a47f---pakavebofaterinum.pdf
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c54a8f7a3cb57968c26410f9a31aaf0/sadaz.pdf
    • http://vako.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/83474372647.pdf
    • http://synfarm.com/upload/files/tosijexozesosoviwasa.pdf
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa117a4006467bfa5d1691066aee55c1/22063655263.pdf
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9635164ce1---81312349011.pdf
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb66bc5bc7---53894804999.pdf
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010282.bin
d6883c6f328bf9ab50b7d818ad0d4b671915a68630870d4b3e5bd5ee943f636e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10282 16740 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012e05.bin
43002300baa068fb179f6df728ee98430e07505295249e03e3dc13759c378d8f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E05 11056 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000147bd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147BD 16792 bytes