Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af40b24b1ddc99de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-09-09 10:05:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 794e81dc4fd79ca38aebb2f84c8a1c9e SHA-1: 244a1da0b46717735655ad4454b958ef345ad489 SHA-256: af40b24b1ddc99de47ceddd612f137e7fbcbfa6943fd5950aba68bcd97028612
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. 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 multiple external URI heuristics and link farm indicators supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9829

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://esllearningbydesign.com/app/webroot/files/file/45298444321.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0jel0frnsfh7m0sdi2s2eiehpq/tinekobuzuvunisuseke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aathichudi.org/userfiles/file/tisuxorifemamon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polins.org/public/userfiles/file/zovarobunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luijkzonwering.nl/image/file/2332619937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telekommarketing.com/firme_data/files/44059798504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fdconsult.qa/public/uploads/cms_files/dejeriliwejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16132a5af68f37---66212803303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.org/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/61410984948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aragonemprendedor.com/userfiles/files/53232255593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaowebsitecomvn.xemlaco.com/uploads/files/72800015068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twozonechickenlasvegas.com/uploads/files/vuvuzinelimafokifax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gyn-koe70.de/obrazky/file/nigasulov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corpus.bg/files/fck/file/nigiwigazemabumejazimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://borneneskontor-landsforening.dk/userfiles/file/siregujenob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaa1acmiejxr6d7fg.xn--p1ai/data/files/situdemabajavugitojiniseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianphoiduyloimodel.com/Images_upload/files/kaperizowubebokexuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opt-russtd.ru/data_center/upload_pictures/file/5274824940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-elektrostal.ru/upload_picture/file/zuzezaxuwetikabazarijemun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jedwines.com/cmsCart/upload/file/36691888935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcpingie.be/public/files/93268383045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiachuankeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-8/20210908091406254308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wiskind.com/filespath/files/20210908031616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosimonepantaleo.it/userfiles/files/16871306038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datatalk.ilvzhou.com/upload/files/2021/09/202109081515283108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161300a300f5bc---2721023128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=garfield+his+nine+lives+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_off0000ce5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE5A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e66c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE66C 16628 bytes
SHA-256: 94c5d5eae2ef722882968726cb5a7b5279692551ab5b0e41f645fd9bd8aa91f1
font_02_sfnt_off000111cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111CC 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 15084fc9d2cda39d490d0bd633e5df33fe8959be9e35a0c659f282ca43d05773