Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af5f6e2f14ac9b33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 04:55:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 26be1b7f1e3107bd558e2b8af4c5cacb SHA-1: aa89d7438e601f5940df1e52c7292bcdcd86f091 SHA-256: af5f6e2f14ac9b33682e7791945d3204b7cd4067df39e39cd07a70cba96a8058
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure suggests it's designed to lure users to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/561a9e33d9f4edaa453256b34f99ca2e/54110325166.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/56946420132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gymostrov.org/gymostrov/userfiles/file/fosovuvuwat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ujuib6hfpjsmf7mifqbgqreq27/lujavetenaraga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bad96da4298ab4bf7cc15bc4045aca1/kodikonetawadugisisolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cjsc.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xawimawemigizanerodobivis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e03f18630---kodogoxolumetuwopawan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d055bf53c29---jefukigazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c5a1256405632f5ad4fc7559f89f397/kipubil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mp4od6jv8blsjq941h93slunb7/8653178699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carrentchiengmai.com/files/xalawok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jodhpurtravels.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/22928234589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8d8c66abbc---1477875794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detskaoptika.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57157423726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esthebel.de/userfiles/file/28329231193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bab6a39bfb---niwegazubenuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/pifitedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/92716343701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/peviforazuxosinodogixedas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e86c060e53c24f5a3c236639a030917/daralefifewatokar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f625ab4b6---3620638577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/suc408pl0an7ulctj0kgiervla/18795942776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eece7e2668573553afbdee232febdafb/27302269968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6f85dd1218---bufisupajilewose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088271e82336---tanavosutazubapidaxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdpu.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cd8407d17d17523a21beba4e0a7aef6/61624039632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=examples+of+karst+topographyPDF 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_off00010fa7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FA7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000127b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127B9 19832 bytes
SHA-256: 2d097ea22c4022f110f91f49b4f1e77d82255677e03bd9cfb60c79d980016be2
font_02_sfnt_off00015903.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15903 10900 bytes
SHA-256: cb591786bfb6cf3b61d730e8c155ade1367b0f55db6ed2f405d399778511aff7