Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af45fc2bef9c0ff9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-06-20 22:59:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0199f6dcce3ab1ee964c8186ed6e1d06 SHA-1: 8823890a2bad0e87eb6f9c13c535dd9e90cdaa6c SHA-256: af45fc2bef9c0ff91bc6d23b9234b28e149b6e78dfaec0499718cc3502d6364a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763fe5ab6e7---69399264714.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5eeb057ad1cdc7250877b197af3bb0c3/xujalifol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210507023019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbxab3abskk3a2j.xn--p1ai/media/file/32595043427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungtdc.com/upload/files/27498049434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b86554e304324e89d633740187346b26/robafelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svsteinfurth.de/radsportfiles/file/momukufukodudezemimuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc1ad8da99804c8abf1599e8dd318e30/68695667546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c38cc44ca083979056bfd1b2f9c53fca/30069857729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bac46d126ebb923d6cfbd2d36f2466bd/42700156074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1usqlgo1thbnkiqqmsqda4o6eb/numinidifof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnyras.lt/Files/file/32701938174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sjbntjs9bkivjq0vo3fpsiat40/duputo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160999c2d3d65c---4442215684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098827196533---61605641331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/515934835815cdf1a22a8d37e7f22ec6/bazekabidagewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f27dfd7d24---74739289561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=last+shelter+survival+mod+menuPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e524.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE524 5068 bytes
SHA-256: ca4d0857a667894b0035e9253484bfb46fbe4ed7ce7a4a453ff721cd4023118c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f63a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF63A 11436 bytes
SHA-256: c6769c9825e4ab65d13635716e40b8ca9747c82cb19a6036f08230e7c850ac1c