Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af1d7342a844d1b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-07-23 20:24:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 745ff6376db91bfc6eff3f062b522fe7 SHA-1: aae7de01f76f1ff09526129d6b68592cb20f59c5 SHA-256: af1d7342a844d1b92ecdbee3ec8f2f18d95b02ccdc270b2f29e6959e6669a79c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The file's structure and link farm nature are consistent with a phishing lure designed to direct users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/94807806894.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d27fa0bef7---46839314515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/se5d7c3l4d9i62jt9ksbjcqp20/wolazod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/wiruzavetakoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d40132c6ba---jupewub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2126e7b88e---48720410800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpghomerepairs.com/uploads/image/files/26575514101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardechetendancebrut.fr/userfiles/ardechetendancebrut.fr/file/35838166354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhipuma.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/pedovajidokumiduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/xegirirowiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-plaza.com/upload/userfile/files/rijud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8f1d2e6e02de83d52caefc56d9a1dd6/18108268835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9b5d28622e---63504453340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/70451258259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e23f9fd16---34831876496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pendekaremas.com/contents//files/57994052560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e53acc7d49---34919304176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uralinteh.com/uploads/files/xisogemokiwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86830a8e27878a52cc8a181d82197027/58689306864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stbenedikt.ch/userfiles/files/98080705088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/20788864665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suamayin.biz/userfiles/file/77930342597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://we2meeting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/bumodudaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160922a423534e---livumokuruvemerukam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836585621f8---befezaxovomafivumug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=why+thomas+hobbes+is+importantPDF 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_off00010956.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10956 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012168.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12168 16360 bytes
SHA-256: d96d67aa6a87cf10a998c24f8abb311eb2a0973b6b272fa0155502964fba87d2
font_02_sfnt_off00014b9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B9C 10720 bytes
SHA-256: e8c51e2fcf8c042121e083e84c4761cbdc581e8b07509c23098c2ead9af7bf3c