Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af7ffc9140a396ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-12 22:09:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 03081d94f816a3e193a01bd8844f8687 SHA-1: 806460e2d3e56c1b28da63486821880b84949f64 SHA-256: af7ffc9140a396efa8f5ddaceddae2421bfc39e9ee33f8e6ae714b1d468fe0e9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to external sites, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=example+of+mini+marketing+plan+pdf
    • http://kronospan-mofa.hu/editor_up/92921842711.pdf
    • http://nenorm.com/files/files/89462409231.pdf
    • https://sikahaiphong.com/images/news/files/96138760177.pdf
    • http://studiomuraca.eu/userfiles/files/43765881346.pdf
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613498b09f60b---fepakopu.pdf
    • http://klick-tipp.at/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/86354562374.pdf
    • https://indiachristian.org/uploads/files/67344178969.pdf
    • https://funbugs.ie/userfiles/file/61370982307.pdf
    • http://sunriverps.com/data/editor/file/57778889886.pdf
    • https://maggies-handmade.com/UserFiles/files/58764057310.pdf
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/lufuzabemegamafijoduwad.pdf
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319a45c29a0---pitinetaferoxabat.pdf
    • https://ags-car.com/upload/files/mikaro.pdf
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135f4fd9f2c7---22335498213.pdf
    • http://massarentearchitettura.com/userfiles/files/bexinoripigawuturawu.pdf
    • https://ijp2.com/contents/files/78582695079.pdf
    • http://rcsiprojectracker.com/userfiles/files/wakefubosazuwabon.pdf
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27592a2c40ae5e811d954e03d305ba86/jibufufeweloleva.pdf
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161311ebb866b8---gosofimuvozelujekureri.pdf
    • http://lightningriskassessment.com/ci/userfiles/files/dosino.pdf
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161360eeb1da77---90974344611.pdf
    • http://blueview.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/wugujegepebol.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f1de.bin
8b58f8eafaf42fd8d6e30803b861d3337dc70aad552f65d90ea207185a33bbcd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1DE 10852 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010aa3.bin
2915895de053c6077fdf7fce35fc01b6955db48f2f03fff6d9a905e9139cb21c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AA3 16580 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013597.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13597 16792 bytes