Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af22749a72911a11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-09-26 00:58:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 994a49e9eee159fa0b0e836bbf1a3eb9 SHA-1: 37677ccf84a16b1eacc06bf8e1ad15b6dbc74e76 SHA-256: af22749a72911a11ab665172bbab3e597e8c3b70365ac493a051e512fc4471f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly support its malicious nature. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings clearly indicate the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://a9188.com/upload_files/art_files/files/20210911_131030.pdf
    • https://www.artikel238.nl/emmwebbit/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jokubi.pdf
    • https://people11people.com/uploads/File/84797502505.pdf
    • http://stickers-moins-cher.com/userfiles/stickers-moins-cher.com/file/juxewegigamudusi.pdf
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161369baaf4058---9493545922.pdf
    • http://goldmustang.ru/files/files/58808143219.pdf
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/userfiles/file/wubajabi.pdf
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u62tj65l7j5cpf9agb1m3k1pih/98104927350.pdf
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614053bac2f8e---lawopuvofuwobowuzenarewij.pdf
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614de965c42c1---97394032113.pdf
    • http://goozzl.com/userfiles/files/94937203956.pdf
    • https://elmawadah.com/userfiles/file/65490291369.pdf
    • https://www.assofmt.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fetuwek.pdf
    • https://xn--72ca1bzcdf9cg5df4n5a8cei.com/userfiles/files/61840192033.pdf
    • http://oio.cn/uploadfiles/files/rirobisezuwexaginurejo.pdf
    • http://autoscuolemontagna.it/userfiles/files/zojabegufojepodave.pdf
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93a2c0b7604bc197b74c204a3b711674/zabuseg.pdf
    • http://kiiga.ru/userfiles/file/vepowoji.pdf
    • http://vcelari.naceradec.cz/includes/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72020053765.pdf
    • http://orvositudasbazis.eu/images/upload/file/71692615278.pdf
    • https://linhngapt.vn/upload/files/tefukebisowuwinudeku.pdf
    • http://hingliltd.com/userfiles/junagi.pdf
    • http://malagi.pl/user-files/fck/file/39183607935.pdf
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f33e8e8079---xudasazadulosimibuzabi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=crab+emoji+android
    • 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_off0000b2f4.bin
fcca10d154e335f023e0412665eba0c0e5e0b3d58491666d582bf2780dc2a59a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2F4 16972 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000de80.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE80 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f697.bin
98ee9dc185196e5d4901dd26228da8da47d6400c3fb0e3243a09748fd256bf38
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF697 10396 bytes