Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af1538fea7bb5439…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-03 21:57:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: c7c60a9e9d2942bf2c3a83891eb03e66 SHA-1: 99bc3b2085dc69d055d900b1c65e67bc0aa773db SHA-256: af1538fea7bb54396b1b651b08c1fb91278991e7e5f97f95c2c0e2349f56d1be
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware delivery campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ghost+movies+2020 PDF link annotation
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7qsilultpv8sd7rkm9sat4uddi/putonorukoxaxoravajadaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lepjunk12.hu/uploads/files/66157749296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistersaviopublicschool.com/userfiles/file/jejukepunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e6ff0dd17---6601966515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a39a4036fd4---7498972167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da6fa27df7e---89290770145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cb7ae8c1b2f8762d7c7a9dc49f694c4/nitenawupojedipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveletrust.com/basefile/traveletrustcom/files/6752911825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autavrabek.cz/obrazky/file/59788019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://healthcareadvisorsgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n8fcdgvhk1udoe57vd6hqse8h0/3290835652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiramisu-o.com/yamituki-n/uploads/files/dovazasodaborijaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdravi-kromeriz.cz/files/file/73581319159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01htd21720af7bmfhlkh2h4v5e/44895558711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/61246523120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://couvreur-hautdoubs.fr/internet_new/images_et_fichiers//file/63400448917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5003a3aa5d795f9a3bb934f7d3fb741/xusakoxixuwinol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kssi.ir/public/userfiles/file/46957600364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc8dac270cf75846d4c9cd205e5b71d3/23985618388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktcz.eu/files/files/tugoxexugibopuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ijdssymposium.eu/upload/bodejafodotexobivoxusopum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karthikeyanjayaram.com/userfiles/file/45030115501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://self119.net/upload/userfiles/2021/06/files/210623215711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7e6feb62cc93f2864f03a0129a63944/89024258808.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_off0000f4ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4EC 17428 bytes
SHA-256: 926f3f0a73b28861b4d96763324e87f218a1243a3f20a8b97d9b5404e2182e36
font_01_sfnt_off0001229e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1229E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013ab5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AB5 10308 bytes
SHA-256: f021d7273de3ca64946797b3da690aa8b1b650ac0663978d0ec9f1e260addc38