Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af8add94e25d35fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-15 19:58:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b0815ee130a71ec26a14d42c38b277ac SHA-1: 64ce618715ef6a552dc8230cc88cebe927e5c776 SHA-256: af8add94e25d35fadd6832dba997576782f0ed4c9a6ddbe314d5425246e22c3d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=unlimited+money+for+traffic+rider PDF link annotation
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a09d51a1c055aaa4f76efaeded9ead6/52591607679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northern-japan.com/image/upload/File/35135672498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pomacanthe-art.fr/imagebeforeafter/files/23050204874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://factorysales.com/userfiles/files/46071430419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5mal4.de/moneyvidya/web/images/userfiles/file/ruratilogalizok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413f11c2e67---78375720451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regiefranchet.fr/userfiles/files/zapavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jongauger.com/userfiles/file/zudubirumenizosuwadaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homestayhoian.vn/uploads/image/files/14923307302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/pawimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.koreayokogawa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30568418228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scvumaichiramen.com/uploads/files/4486589593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinedafoundation.org/imageuploads/file/59993527132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calprin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79345873835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jedzenie365.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94898133814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swiss-ex.com/images/blog/file/rejiloxisovirimawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphamarino.kz/images/news/file/wexawopodexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuchina.org/userfiles/file/dunuxijagezat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131444018f2d---tidax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0b823d3c0aeb45bd1adb865f948f8cf/14976914334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitaldanceacademy.com/userfiles/files/xazetozikonizor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjburgerut.com/uploads/files/46978605161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gbhkus902rck0omjr6ermi6b7k/46755613911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quesnelbusinessnetwork.ca/userfiles/file/5108782628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.puhito.hu/uploads/14153791977.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_off0000e320.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE320 18812 bytes
SHA-256: cafebb734ef71a0134f892a8b5dd26bcf4dbe2142204d79d78de40d95f39329f
font_01_sfnt_off00011423.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11423 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C3A 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 1f378ae71c90f25e1b2e00e05dfa7656fa4fab8e36625217ad65ae84a4d7998f