Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af8711bde6f585b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 02:34:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: de72531c9b7566c7fe8822d10f6a890c SHA-1: 0e9ed18d89071be289e2ca115969ecfb6730edce SHA-256: af8711bde6f585b6326394dafa6bb0990e10c2d095fcaa263ac0a86b0dae889b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mishkat+shareef+in+english+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://scoutpate.com/userfiles/file/pafofufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jbphvdncaihegvirp5r94vs2lq/nesotafefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sogelec-eng.com/files/ckfinder/files/lotelegapajiporajebabepog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/517ab55f0541740403b0e53be0c49895/welusowuken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bazab.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17050044820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldnathanlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/61517262518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa509c70b0488ce4f571f008349dd4e3/86607030825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd061ba3e5---28282602117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bed979aedc8e19fedbed79dbecf04212/dusepivipopilop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantryscan.com/123cars/imagefck/file/popadid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futurepoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sakizukakim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a95fcb5d37d---28947852722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioriboldi.eu/userfiles/files/26499723121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfe.hk/userfiles/topidofubawufur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13dio3pcghgpdo4kceihv2oi79/83825172911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/ximuwizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://susasoft.com/upload/userfiles/files/vusapilal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d735541b230---xewiwonipavamaxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8710ce055ab63f6ee34e468e8c06aea4/45962111268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-pro-peau.fr/userfiles/file/66579805085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoprato.eu/userfiles/files/denizujavakedixudozuposuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909f9f92fcc---22416067780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stop-remont.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lozasafusifokasop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----9sbkvfu2aex3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29366111858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lmbri.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/gifonexugiwejaveno.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_off0000c52b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC52B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD42 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 80f0fca4929937e95cbca0af9232e40951ea1dd68c0cb5839487ba66ef48138f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f5ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5AB 19176 bytes
SHA-256: 52d92626d65915f0e6e9ad07dd7c582ae135b2cd6f761096099d86930b7c34e1