Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af43080e7a0853a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 06:48:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 96f17f4a81fadc78ffee050be48c12e3 SHA-1: 5db0ed55c8e81e0578265108eb7b4b8d2e504534 SHA-256: af43080e7a0853a5602357e1ca28919317856b7f7c6dd4af9372b4b981ea524b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The embedded URLs, despite some being marked benign, contribute to the overall pattern of directing users to potentially harmful sites.

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.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a184dfdc48e---88950468519.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b609bc6ea---fadedikiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daehwa.info/uploaded/file/46523740162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/37836005488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/gitatupuwipuvefefof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://publicbridge.pl/userfiles/file/8433571619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whkmradio.com/userfiles/file/torudozakapifelireko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettogherardi.eu/userfiles/files/tijeteredezaxapajorefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a337d5a5f03---sonotuvotigunefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencshoworganizasyon.com/upload/ckfinder/files/sorigowewozer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d44a12ea9---36697497905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f14cc6f6f6bd18b5ee1b8fbaf0320599/ravaninunebuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79a15d68c4f9bf45e20500454112f332/xivemalelesivibana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citrasas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34881584354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1night2day.com/ckupload/files/dujilesenelilaruki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607986c5dbfa2---26281378207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secretinvitation.net/images/files/95765769087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jofj3ja7ad6fppl30avrs772s0/lefezeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thompsonhigh1980.com/clients/4/48/48b9e10b24f1ac3c627dfd5bb8c45987/File/kosizumepixilobudegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/433509b49de2e1a903aba5931ce29b03/zofure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.net/images/userfiles/file/sowawewunudaxixawow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/906cd2510c57edcaa164d218a906906c/56025452133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f3e2cd2236---likosonale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/78670567116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=mathematics+12th+class+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_off0000c122.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC122 16720 bytes
SHA-256: 86313b81f5aacceeb106d55e92c6879a23473b2b54041c0f436b38c8ef2e9870
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC03 10724 bytes
SHA-256: ef2ac091f64b40aec17573f66082133a20f7e9338a6cbf6af8542a8fdf5e77f2
font_02_sfnt_off000104bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1