Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af225ca90d765715…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-10-02 14:57:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 2e81ba760618b26b7ec3384a3cdebd13 SHA-1: 8d71028836f4f9a84f6b3ba321945252f7736929 SHA-256: af225ca90d765715513e84565eabff1b6a9eb0ffbe6225e386b557bb5a52c629
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. Heuristics indicate these links are hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, increasing the likelihood of malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest this PDF is malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=in+extractive+distillation+solvent+is PDF link annotation
    • http://orbitsecurity.qa/pro_mvp_tech/uploads/file/75997075669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://073741256.com/uploads/files/202109250049055421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qapoll.com/2015/vat/upload/files/83129991815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134f8b0ee10b---31197259035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snowcat.pl/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17726761615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/2269317582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614821827abd2---fifozubuxexosatirofuledox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nexusmediation.nl/files/5146087455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escuelasfutbol8.com/docs/files/putexarazotejuzapemavogex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santchavarabed.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bimef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/fagita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dallard.fr/ressource/site-image/files/norozotiriwuxezuvefin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newshieldinsurance.com/demo/gsa/final/images/file/98330818462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spbmworld.com/anaeter_capital/siteadmin/userfiles/files/jexuferonevatafegurupewel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosebankprimary.co.za/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5157120659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cachnhietcacham.vn/Images_upload/files/kuzefive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatnhapkhaugiasi.com/luutru/files/felud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mondoacquapiscine.com/userfiles/files/pesatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekopaczka.pl/imgbrama/files/89900317907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sahyadrisevasanstha.in/userfiles/file/guwexabafuxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itidharamshala.in/images/uploads/files/86194364934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runwellconsulting.com/file/file/34894596690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d3c6546c21---biguxaruzozudepefuxewaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlevitin.ru/fck_editor_files/files/doluxexezefusajesapora.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_off0000b0b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0B3 16244 bytes
SHA-256: 18203ee931bcf2229cc2223e3cc4b888e51de9e5b6cb6d44342426cebf99b944
font_01_sfnt_off0000d96a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD96A 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 5b562fb8baae0e05a8ecd2d7f3fa3bd1b1a87050b50767af25328f90b2ea1620
font_02_sfnt_off0000f16b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF16B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1