Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af3f648451e84267…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-02 21:44:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 8963f7bb32ef4dd6ed17d382ce89a823 SHA-1: 9527cdbf3aec7c1d4d8ee85119cfc0f8df01cd28 SHA-256: af3f648451e842673452dfde6cf747119a0647b629f1ed98d8185cc47238a132
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to lure users to external, potentially harmful, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/52247598734.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78a910bf7d1f1aeb28d1b2a76cb02e00/46635573264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8be152dbab35f74213ea38f4f5587ec/gugumijepimaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eee7bca438---5345638652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekotronic.eu/files/file/sodixituvadujijifowinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o24jkgihu095kjk49afgb4us55/nararosalewaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7a1a4ef0a8fadc2ac420612454342be/jumetuxogelikuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dc87183f81---fidutimapexebajadafepigaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757a634bb8d---75122739944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc342d61715---50384595440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/064f3ccc16434ff0aa6ecc797f4c8cfe/mebadedilerelefisigoxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9091cd92233fbd0fa703581838044060/49490893568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/torukuwigosulenanofuzopeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a5585173f87a13dddf6c70cce280a6c/gifofofizateritovetuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae2c9f9d0be---pubosajibaxaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac59ac9a3bb---17932280742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/13499666169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnazia.com/fck/imagesfile/riwimoniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/wikanawodulof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28d91370d1493190dab8779d9a56108c/27165508855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c4bd9o53qun9cllnuptip7m85/fukozekudusavaxake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vivaldiroberto.com/img/files/mediafiles/file/xejiginonawuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608723f0a4da3---demejilagujaloropu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toicodonlyson.com/uploads/files/dajiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5df89f1d6eb6ff7a3ec7ca778460fb2f/20929826649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=differences+between+aerobic+and+anaerobic+respirationPDF 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_off0000ebfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBFB 16920 bytes
SHA-256: e5f1c3cf6a5c793a8830672776478bba9ac02c2717b89decba8db5f5ce83c30f
font_01_sfnt_off000117f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013008.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13008 10792 bytes
SHA-256: ea58c473f10f808f32c7f4db9b336dc3eb92c0ae93dacb10d753219b96bf781d