Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af8de1f5dced083c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-08-05 20:47:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: a151eb9aaa729017c667aebc4c9856ce SHA-1: e3c1c7445f2e185bef7f975403bd07d8db2a0faa SHA-256: af8de1f5dced083c99b5fe97a4eeb959dae0e5191a745b3b66142d9b0426c922
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, hosting numerous links on compromised WordPress sites. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware delivery, as suggested by the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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 http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c426079f94d---70431186527.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a666a94c3---87659207761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c35b23bba53---13637563333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c318f63cf26---19210422206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12n6prphtnppinc11k8e7oklp7/keregupezireseri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d2877b370---65039137562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbwmd.com/uploads/Files/sevedomas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dereformasenalicante.com/archivos/files/miwemidipedifibaroxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ba084ebe7799c62deda9d6a18b87bd3/87437987759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1951c3b060---15675101987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ec5a154ebf---ganowopogewafugozixitolal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careersourceokaloosawalton.com/files/public/zigobiwaxumof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tims.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15470650753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a1a99a52ff---58331715577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0486bc0901f929c84a1fff5167cb39f2/gosasate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb36d22f53d---98515209748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reutlinger.pl/userfiles/file/duzidak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/vuduzutevaxusup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalgoodviewresort.com/Uploads/file/81369576676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/218b98c1003046bd50ecbf6553337106/47035165292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praxis-greve-polley.de/web/editor/files/3605425700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pr-jam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pimiwaniwumaderajes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ece10ae107441692356bfcfec199c678/jorofobuloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameragiaminh.com/upload/files/kuzepugazowaforikawunozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymango.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b017ead013dbc718fbfeae03507adfd9/jivuziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banlinhkienlaptop.com/userfiles/file/purokekopefobakakafiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recviem.ru/img/upload/jofujoreta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+does+it+cost+to+install+a+culligan+water+softenerPDF 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_off0000f776.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF776 16896 bytes
SHA-256: 565c6f7906072231f2b30a3c17b84af8726c72785ba8983b54b33933b7c3ff67
font_01_sfnt_off000123a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013bb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BB8 11100 bytes
SHA-256: a228f567ca42e58685533f92f903337ab5c4f3151876a6cb28c1240db984877f