Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af85da79ec9c32e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:21:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 386c59aae5bcd163e08aa705baafc492 SHA-1: 0b49727d7ceef60051402cce4fcad92a420c00d8 SHA-256: af85da79ec9c32e1007b70728f747664cff40c9ec5632ced4af2a0d4c45a5f3e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ielts+listening+test+paper+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/64030105494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089f452e7d70---54441246079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbkh9hmuiif91pjsds1bqe312i/pokopaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4d1o36dp0r73jalifrlgjs81c/xusamumegokaxipebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dnsbp.com/all4help/fckuserfiles/file/10855888061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccd72d9e1f4---pizonilubovepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adf139e70d4---96113534328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab43b195715---zodadokunolojominob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avigailpekelman.com/sites/default/files/file/bevodotatuxenevukimibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0993c511b14ae1c76e8d9b5ae5a85a6/43959315612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vpn-solutions.com.pe/ckfinder/userfiles/files/soxizigomozutuxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcarnet.com/home/sandbox/domains/hkdance.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18383402338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/910b5ad7ece310eb93c90703159cfbd4/31999676579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfusion.us/admin/images/file/dugawuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d23cd2b422---padonofawigokewev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/file/ziputoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-pxl.com/uploads/files/xaxotodadurabub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af598727427409f29bb70d1ae10e82b8/miwunumigobazupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b52bafb96e1---tijobamupujom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tungalag.mn/userfiles/files/durefivozowixideperakaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lg-palette.com/upload/files/67012193748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/78570746786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoalavender.net/upload/files/18871593227.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_off0000d0f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0F8 17524 bytes
SHA-256: 7d16120adc8c18aa136f7406e5e18ac5fb9433e34df175ae07a2e83b74d8ccac
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE35 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 8b4d8cece29947d766d12ced684970f9f36a4e661c642e053dbaca096883f251
font_02_sfnt_off000115f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115F9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1