Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af3788c4309a7b27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 19:25:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c81180a0f9ddd59e3412c4111cb89cf2 SHA-1: 960583d9c26372248503602231459961c28771f7 SHA-256: af3788c4309a7b274579cff2a31cb76f68f77fa04948e9177e8084f71f1df1cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the links indicate a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for execution.

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 http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092523441caf---88532914759.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c54980be8d---75898762888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090da9b8e53a---387078189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakoca.hu/files/file/gebef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/91089283407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oomewatersport.nl/upload/files/33478275902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rydelko.pl/userfiles/file/rinirigoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160742252aa4c7---befasuvaveba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliothequeanglaise.org/upload/files/87086721408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1agjlwjc3g.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66126509913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unibel.pl/pliki/upload/file/kuribiwekaxelufakufesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767c6f6950a---35812106784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sangtaoad.com/uploads/userfiles/file/badilimoburumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nomorecpapmachine.com/userfiles/files/kiverufuzorekutal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2d8c987fc---bupul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cargobull.cz/res/file/63703686240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istvietnam.com/rich_editor/file/tupipizigugumaminilakuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gpaci.org.br/cms/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wujanufawadafuxotivarexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79038c0a6d0d8db7d4593f56ee62bd21/22557040179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.singchai.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zitozatixonojimaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalkucharski.pl/app/webroot/media/files/63591037990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dff20b0418c---memolanodukuzetuxenufojet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brette-animation.com/userfiles/file/30959113776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheinmotel.com/userfiles/file/vefaxizobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque.ville.deux-montagnes.qc.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kabopipinajijetivevaras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=spider+man+movie+script+pdfPDF 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_off0000daf2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAF2 10876 bytes
SHA-256: b1bc6015c3913f8575813681583c769d552ef1c40adab91ab9db833ab4a24a1c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f40d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF40D 18828 bytes
SHA-256: cdd20c9660c5529ecb22fd080eda17d68f7da67c450f29e48969a42947c3fab5
font_02_sfnt_off000124c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1