Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af3311e9577264df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 15:37:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 3ba9d91cfe061c685ce827401204350a SHA-1: e28caa481d7d3fff3b763894f799103d72386bda SHA-256: af3311e9577264dfaff709c02c27a2ea542a4a5667084f3c55a2f50091bda2e0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lead users to malicious content, aligning with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d606c3a82a---nodunedutufus.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://iwanbim.com/userfiles/files/30675603143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkjz.cn/upload/files/2021/08/202108091853376475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campingwithconvenience.com/files/files/46982044424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youkuvpn.com/upload/files/23065721213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/58683890469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vlkdptjd5refo4kofavg2l56h3/pinobepekagevoketigoves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubselectionvoyages.com/images/file/14913711259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkydoanhnghiep.org/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/30389054040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/46430692692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazhonghua1688.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62072344030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09898be15f20fc612209230b37dea3ed/vagosodukaguronu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appartenvue.net/appart/upload/images/bekumesonofoxukozokatil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/dinugaxabominogijinaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202106030911337325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a35699c70d0---sopivuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610bb6e53655c---wipoxusavaveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67fe4670d815189eca2e355b2093e113/81400616146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97254c407c01728fec8ac52f50275b98/bezalexafirazugako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lee-trading.tw/archive/upload/files/75910977878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuacuonbentre.com/upload/files/todidam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comillaspostgrado.es/userfiles/file/woruxefasidalefurilik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosaison.fr/userfiles/files/muxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612719fe410d3---57172423311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=colours+worksheets+for+grade+1PDF 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_off0000c889.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC889 16912 bytes
SHA-256: 84ec6d333cb420873a64083f54a8a85621b60c9e88a82b1d20945fc24a79b534
font_01_sfnt_off0000f450.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF450 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 656a931ecca81212963c0ef705609302fac3cce3d00b8a3f92342ae14a6862e8
font_02_sfnt_off00010d5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D5C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1