Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af6d6b8923c7e022…

MALICIOUS

PDF

121.4 KB Created: 2021-07-19 05:29:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6fda668145d1143b8795ccde62850367 SHA-1: d23bbeb9e1a4eccd6ae62b67d271cacd9defe546 SHA-256: af6d6b8923c7e02281cc3e0f40df5bdd00bbc5be6a2470d4d2bbfd66b6bd885d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic findings suggest the document is designed to lure users to external malicious resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9818

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://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787d16ea8fb---91195204183.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///zusoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matsonconstruction.net/userfiles/file/gerolel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olsztyntransportmedyczny.pl/userfiles/file/gipanidujonolekivigeginal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exihomes.com/userfiles/files/72978580151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d69a93a987e4cc849d74af534a3b030/93841142461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9c080d65eb---41442392161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k1krntag7kecj3ibtgr1tt73p8/finuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dfbbe50aa5---xipotofawezamikusani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/pugunivafoxujexagaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbd9310a824b4ee2971a6065aa5e3ddb/7576752392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/82251153358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097c671332cf---fibivobuziwotidukaten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiajitu.com/contents//files/junisimuvebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesnek-vysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/51031512597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105230747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congthuonghotel.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/lutovebevasuzivenojulov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalensi.com/public/File/wadudepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hasekei.jp/userfiles/file/5872749293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fef0e88762---66389083099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9411ac351325b6c904f5835e39ba3d78/2360464534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b17d82dc896---10837766323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/deb8fd97abd97eab4f0e7a063b3dddc7/gavesemisodilezeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5bac5b7e77---8399067534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62473b06f6d1ecd18afb59d42e99e0a7/4088835031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicoral.com/img/userfiles/files/mofolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=word+that+starts+with+cPDF 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_off00017bab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17BAB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000193c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x193C2 10264 bytes
SHA-256: 5a965ef3d52b6aedfdb01e676809d5907586da8458d10b4b358e706a3ac4a545
font_02_sfnt_off0001ab0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AB0B 17304 bytes
SHA-256: c516871a38ce90dfda02275c5920a5dcdfd959d022a01f53d92d0262192a18c7