Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af30e6d8c8020445…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-07-18 14:25:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 831590fd59f9ec1d9467d9f6fc10191d SHA-1: 84e1cc2546506c98fe0731fb936388bfb85ed6d8 SHA-256: af30e6d8c80204452d4952fef7608fc69f22f798914d205e2c85776319b04901
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct textual clues to its purpose beyond what the heuristics indicate.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/20333943170.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://baihsad.com/userfiles/files/20210712_211648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vigova.vn/Images_upload/files/lirade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf1d5cf21319c2415a210ec60edd7524/sesewigalimidunapox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r026ot7h99tvfi3u24ud6n46th/79154656292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805170099d9---bovabazulikowokajujaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instalater-macecek.cz/klienti/devel/sneznerolby.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77970743241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hjv25ii448e78ei2doti2p4bt7/pebexajudakibemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/67304650070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tks-forever.com/upload/2021/07/10/file/meniguwul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28087b45a6802dbc4dda020260243302/60928989167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://btc-ltd.com/upload/file/gasuxajaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a494af92919---dujimomojexenipadokutit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c53092931b843c0fa3738db402d36c8/pirupumuratikututufujiwik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84faffb746f75fc43e64e0c5f4aa4b05/perirofedafas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17556cbk5hjmmoeun6mgn2o5i1/pokivori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a81304b475---labozijutogelosepuwek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094336471cc0---nabupetipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6337044deec701141dc7475509abe0cd/farawepowivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1975geegees.com/clients/78603/File/zatetosufuferoruwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22v4tramlfiak21180m93gfe04/63189275327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fjp7jjlblhksoef004qcnho8ve/vojovazidebapezudav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093e7efe3916---paxuzetoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ab0f98967a---97537938834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed03470e0d---fufisafurowamojavonev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=brevard+soffit+and+sidingPDF 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_off0000d5ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE11 17200 bytes
SHA-256: 9ab30b7cad7c8f973f0a8262daadece4ba1da32d2c92526d3a125fd901a67f90
font_02_sfnt_off00011b21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B21 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 846681b8ca269e8fdac3664dcbeb0a793db9a61cecc1922c8cecd6843139806e