Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af46ae8561232338…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 13:54:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 115e16167cdce6089e3d825b0bac74d6 SHA-1: 68ebf76ca67b0520a14fcbd65cd595fd569463b1 SHA-256: af46ae856123233866a4f595a90b9018ec64654c83030f5fe98c2e6ae098ca08
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host and distribute malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the link farm structure strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attack, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607248c193bdd---badokedugubeveburaga.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31a75gi3v83r0ucst7pupimten/womugomagakovibefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e18066f9a3---fuzisisoroxulivakaluxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aed39913993---zununufuvepixixegadera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premium-t.info/files/files/51512386825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa0a6f8fd87---65252500599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanphoiongnhuahoasen.vn/upload/files/kanizumetajaxamus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatlekhanh.com/Images_upload/files/gapisaxodatiriwifopebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dkv89l14tql2kmp6n2s1u3v9pl/24375208142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnwealthy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94090375107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunapvietnam.thietbiotoviet.com/Images_upload/files/zisajuroxapegopibela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d4a988bab8---62971986207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/8438067677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drprdesaihospital.com/uploads/zixuwitudal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/60806874390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a3c148493---jutasaziruje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onishi-kyosendo.jp/archive/ribub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladue69.com/clients/876446/File/kosisiworanubaxenenazebak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/84417284266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c48dc0383ce---93971116481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms02bet.net/contents/files/kepunazeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smflow.in/admin/uploads/file/zuvokar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aromamarketing.md/img/files/36822021135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radekslodkiewicz.pl/files/file/13242128763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goez3.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gurewaxefif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e4c754cefe---nebiketitizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=rowley+jefferson%27s+awesome+friendly+adventure+read+online+free+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_off0000f2d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2D7 11236 bytes
SHA-256: 935aa88d9d4964d8be58719e2facc37a9b9848cac7ed68245d79bda27e95e3f8
font_01_sfnt_off00010d3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D3F 18292 bytes
SHA-256: 6750f4b521edb59ce725fdd5f930fdaf6a475fdc3aa552b540e8b6da0ec21094
font_02_sfnt_off00013c3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C3E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1