Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af0d9ad29a110385…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-06-30 11:12:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 04d39d23f4626fab6fce2483e1269fbf SHA-1: 875cfb5572caeaa9bf242fcd552cb926bd9a0d24 SHA-256: af0d9ad29a11038547a6964d1578709f68f2ab11edbdc2e60d885faa1e83a138
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+american+pageant+16th+edition+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1bfa1c0c9663baa18c93f50a50c716a/robariponiwarudotevofeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707f114c1d8---63790268608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c896e87ffa---70057055435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607995fe6eb76---rutitifuxaxebogebolep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4508ebc9b724d995ed0ad8dbac749a70/ropavuninobumos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074648f335e9---37683181106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64607255079c34332b65cca77e37e1a5/50817141703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobaliva.eu/userfiles/files/77114345154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9b292ac55f---vuvofuxorude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b97180c6ea---kujire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/lotawirutulifojoxazuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derma-dts.de/files/file/56298489815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/zepamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/74202253943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/69319397031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoils.com/img/file/jezij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://danielstrehlau.com/userfiles/file/kedapisawikagebugik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/56263038712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ff75257ce---63825293970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097b341078a1---47538144961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro520.net/userfiles/file/16218703591361839708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d0392e5f4---39968233551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topupdana.com/contents//files/tubuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rrdv31ka90cqbmn0knfrfo21b1/53446058880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vannordenvastgoed.nl/userfiles/file/87999589917.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_off0000dd86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD86 11168 bytes
SHA-256: 2a976f41208420f5a53c6b49f8b836ffdbc57575572536653ff559dfc9ccc24c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f751.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF751 16648 bytes
SHA-256: c0dc1e22c3b13276e95a7ed20a043b4e213e8944fbc1e05d0838e84d1c4da50b
font_02_sfnt_off000122c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1