Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af429e69bfc2e66f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 13:32:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 00f92d7100a2f81f3aa3e34a1ca3deb0 SHA-1: bf0adf77a42aaf2c26c418d5893ac07b08dedc56 SHA-256: af429e69bfc2e66f49f5966f67d6510d08a221aa8f71816ca8ab7c73eec6e210
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm, with several URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132b3f11d588---13553687071.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cmtdental.com/upload/ckimg/files/33801380474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slovoveri.org/userfiles/38035817434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ba159e84753b53e0c937897977d5998/mamivugabofizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137e8cbc071a---87369792171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161357b4f152f3---56894710854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/zobopurin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hsbofmn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91121658413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://realcomfort.ru/content/upload/file/lilewow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tradegateindia.com/userfiles/file/xaxiwumexapitivelavajake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liceoadultos.juniorcollege.cl/userfiles/files/72456926178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerateacademy.com/file/87695621303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://servingltda.com/userfiles/file/devejakevilefepipofakuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ochronaskory.pl/pliki_user/File/86249266484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaprosmart.com/userfiles/files/99424369254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hijaustabilo.com/contents/files/78662594607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f991025e35---12190483322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oteaexpert.fr/cite_imgs/file/sokuriba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eced19e627---31176178993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gulfcoastlist.com/userfiles/file/83656863850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coytex.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sekejupaxodisuvetuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yh-nutri.com/filespath/files/20210908105522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chemtron-vostok.ru/media/file/wizotadebuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myparrotfood.com/user_files/files/nibafumonukogilarasukazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simorgh.it/uploads/file/72232831737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prttour.ca/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_92D42C24274143E5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=molusco+contagioso+ni%C3%B1os+tratamiento+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_off0000eab6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAB6 11264 bytes
SHA-256: e79b754c1f4cf00858fab9c8ef9736107979863a2841967b271ed9a536c03f9b
font_01_sfnt_off000104b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104B1 18416 bytes
SHA-256: 0e93afb17b02c3935a6d085046bc2f1e7c35a29d9cd038d425d0d365710d0511
font_02_sfnt_off00013394.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13394 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1