Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af69936647907ff8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-08 00:26:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 58dbc1aa866b29018481cc7c14c8d092 SHA-1: 49d55051096b2072d4fd8986391e42e749161476 SHA-256: af69936647907ff8cfeeec46c43e46376d72d10f66c5937b4824b2cd07b6ad92
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=crime+and+punishment+by+rk+narayan+summary PDF link annotation
    • https://clifestyle.net/uploades/userfiles/file/fetofobadiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smeclassof1987reunion.com/clients/37165/File/fasozota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cncforginghammer.com/d/files/19268200937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fygl.net/uploads/file/211519328257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/vazixugizuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patc.fr/imagesfile/65721849357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/gobigamotoduzapotamaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6af8fcad9619526f339a8e9efe4ba111/gafobiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yonseri.org/userfiles/files/kotugobakufafirupasenok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hen0paltuoj9q59kvvn2p32vjp/wiserofaralo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.com/images/uploads/files/kesefojusiwirelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d729864a292---xuzifetegujugevadezagoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-22/20210622161756664553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/dusoweta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wumag.pl/userfiles/file/67513794879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160731d28c773e---42859372158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/amenopumad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-family72.ru/content/images/uploads/file/21155406168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-dcc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g2lh1l2tr421nunc3p19pk8vno/motixoviwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghalemdi.com/userfiles/file/94565596316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c4f1bd92e9---telapetekidotunana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2m-m.eu/userfiles/files/xavowifelixod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keyflounge.nl/userfiles/file/melina.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_off0000eb25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB25 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 29ed9afcbd721f43d1a1e4bb8585b5d53d5fadbd82701642da51f7517871e383
font_01_sfnt_off00010430.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10430 17524 bytes
SHA-256: ae0e3d19474855ad516f6492764a11778b690e149ca8dc98375e9d41ab0ad27e
font_02_sfnt_off000131b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1