Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af439b493c8be3af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-07-01 10:42:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 406b0e06134b3d1c5e3a62cfad68d2de SHA-1: 39b831f30c2d190f4f031237d8b4006548d7d74a SHA-256: af439b493c8be3af2a4e44e115a279c5c095372fa6626b7bf0f3d1ad6d426a52
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, presenting numerous URLs that lead to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further suggests a lure to trick users into clicking these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tere+ishq+mein+naachenge+mp3+song PDF link annotation
    • https://vigiweb.cl/dinamicos/files/file/32411345125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a82a5a4f66f---40049223643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bufolari.com/public/immagini/file/soguzepifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titusrelay.com/clients/e/ef/ef304ccc03541e9e6382bef5f13b0a7d/File/13181480065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/mesovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1jrjo7li973ed6es0vbguaddt8/54144663675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basalyemek.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6469830259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd40ea5cfa---bilalasuzegijasajanuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086bcb310acc---warijojanemufanod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609546bbb0efa---roxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9869372a4f---jezepejiganununewimoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liur-krd.ru/userfiles/file/98420535516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staropolski.net/Upload/file/saxekatubetelaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mya1fc.com/files/ckuploads/files/jamugosuwilozuzijis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/dumadim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2c0b66f39---kabelumikabojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/467055cb2fb88f17ed3dc227a3234256/88209984772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/enuqs5pmj68oedee8ic2124h74/8742379719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chiataiec.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/80270170834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c85acfcb17d---46226526861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f62c71c286---lejugevigigejoregowila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/947gear693mh8kb671q1jpmvi3/1273140759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000cfb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFB3 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 2d0b704fc39b79b555211409ea8671fdd41e980a051fa2c553d8326e4a108c4c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000100b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100B7 17208 bytes
SHA-256: 19d1e1478f37e5a0fb40a07b7fc5246ac55dd72bb06583b25a1163738eaa0291