Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af76b774550bf37b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-16 21:43:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: df00b333e367a69fff8de55875340172 SHA-1: a9293b36b21434fe4f88be5c46e0ae4f84c9a56f SHA-256: af76b774550bf37bcabebbb81ccd4291ec7635dd0405b9aca15966176e02fabb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate an attempt to lure users to external, potentially harmful, websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8067f8530a---71542495753.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b57f0e46a5---gozubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1b50f222be---tewowebuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daotaoyduoc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/npm6mr8jtaolj4gqhf2p5or47n/33307454212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domusanna.it/userfiles/files/25508203888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/2211265801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurenhanger.nl/userfiles/file/padisamotimozipowubaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ec33442b58---77922768010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capesociety.ca/uploads/files/19619370098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3989dae6dd---41594354812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laptopplus.be/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/7729635235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u0vvevc334tg6cq6fb2gik0a33/2432064651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5d2a0e9fce---pasif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dqgv4gebfbpkqiafj2l1mkqhl/75764349497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f34e0d10f806b3c0ae931de65169473c/85686308366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc0c77a168c---88953281971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lebedosapartotel.com/data/yukle/files/74702348454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ec4e31444---71629596183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dagmar-e.de/userfiles/file/89165922709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coalcreekcentenary.com/clients/5/52/52f735e63eff8706e1a2a73a20aef632/File/gepitozuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3efa71bfa56cbe914e3bdc4c38e739e0/8045787503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38fbc258e56fdfbf9eb195ab659f75be/35020220178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0de720d2e747fc55a3881c1d2fd5fd6/jemosemowizurukoxejare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=where%27s+my+stimulus+check+3PDF 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_off0000f41c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF41C 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 73ee0192a1979f887ca7c0de00f31404fd543fd6bd6921049454c698c98d3423
font_01_sfnt_off00010c87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C87 17156 bytes
SHA-256: c658d0c113f9c88ffedde4ef89fd0dbe4e723c4837cc6acc34df287744561579
font_02_sfnt_off0001396d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1396D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1