Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af528e78aa081cc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-10 16:12:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0364f6799953ac3c9f68fb24af62e122 SHA-1: 5872eaed28a0c0a99d6dc8a8cfd39bbd533db2c7 SHA-256: af528e78aa081cc21368d0ef943d06fc04c01571f11920ef281f925a352d38d4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of 'utm_term=card+numbers+that+actually+work' in one URL suggests a potential phishing lure related to payment information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 http://mim2010.ru/userfiles/file/pakovoweka.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://stiglic.sk/userfiles/file/88795673565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imoroz.by/upload/file/58144628979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ac1882e451---70651473817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenorm.com/files/files/musimoruvebukepuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e19e4b18766cda03bdcabcf8c2d68b8c/rovumamunukimimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbnjl.com/userfiles/files/lamakofabazijajaxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.de/userfiles/file/lodumifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/jowevitokavofawunotewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tallerescarrion.com/uploads/file/44880415698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9f38096ba91654b5f0e03d62ee81e54/44852592574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doosradashak.in/ci/userfiles/files/37773023718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zippy-inc.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/fowibeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tmtteks.com/files/vobajijenawavupuxugaben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adasms.fr/userfiles/file/11041162430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elsa-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/balisulovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138eaef41e94---sibefezoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buzascsaba.hu/userFiles/file/renenukebat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fca247d4a22e0169eccfce8fdd56244a/69135764125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=card+numbers+that+actually+workPDF 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_off0000ced1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCED1 11108 bytes
SHA-256: 93afaa33702b13d1a7f0a9c2baf31b724504d861f82bade8e867e2aecdddc654
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8A4 16992 bytes
SHA-256: 2b98a219afe03ff4ddf2dc571bfc00baaecfce0dc75de96ca326f27e388a6f39
font_02_sfnt_off000114b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1