Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af75f0d79160c71f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-08-26 18:23:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 75124767491806b1dd6e51c1515af61e SHA-1: f162271d114ba7d62b2c6fdd7c6525cf21fabc8a SHA-256: af75f0d79160c71fba3c86dc187b4c0dc466527672ceda6764bdbf90b037f9ed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://tryinvest.eu/userfiles/files/55469210502.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/faxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stamforgtechnologies.com/uploads/takawoduvazazizel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a013fa25bf---lupilusasubexesunelalepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exmar.it/foto_fck/file/sovuborurolubujalulabudev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hum-lucknow.org/test/fckeditor/file/podabakenuzujerutelofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160714730b4561---xonefewoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f4270ec33---lenugawesok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/44548161762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreoltour.ru/sites/default/files/file/51920209853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ducthanhtam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/vapafizopunofojori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henghuitong.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210630031614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pqfvkij6eojhujmuj7lcmn6usc/bilil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piazzademarini3ge.com/userfiles/files/bosametiwasemadidenole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070c660118cb---wotiwukatanuziwat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m91fhq6m112i4eut5hokg80aio/86725323801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/rikinekesidexipuvado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/8354988170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/983qksf2e9l5ljhqjb1ugui9kk/dotavizebiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/191e04e64cd3ac7d3a5fffedeb98d0f8/kofedolesaturad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galeriejacqueselbaz.com/userfiles/file/89582347278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075502ae86f3---90880354481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermoulin.com/userfiles/file/jakugipisudusupib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102fac824b0d---zojaner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=project+management+book+of+knowledge+5th+edition+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_off0000d6c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eed8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEED8 11480 bytes
SHA-256: 937a50a65c46545364ded6f845ae5e090a5349c23d117a60a40d14e57affc3c9
font_02_sfnt_off00010976.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10976 17148 bytes
SHA-256: 0b2d318274a12b4121ff95f49a2531d4f5d6fcaebf0a0c718006eb2f11a15886