Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af934db8fc205d84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.8 KB Created: 2021-10-10 14:18:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: ab21965b2f39e77c7974b3326d288d98 SHA-1: 1c8f6043bd8e5c8bfbcc73e491b41d20ab810c63 SHA-256: af934db8fc205d8467ba53ba320f8dad5f419844c6118c333f4823b0f2146f6b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. The presence of numerous URLs, many pointing to PDF files, suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=attitude+caption+after+breakup PDF link annotation
    • http://bezpiecznamlodosc.org/files/file/58967146450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yule-sign.com/upload/editor/file/20211010195604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-cso.com/upload/file_folder/file/dovopugadesaduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161468d8a86733---18533308840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.impactit.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10564460957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeon-dev.com/uploads/files/202109111254008115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaxabc.com/userfiles/file/20210916133026_175282405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/42667203645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lindendirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gejovesamajutap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hospitalitan.com/sites/default/files/file/31166327259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artin-intranet.com/ckupload/files/mexozekazapewewusoloxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teormech.ru/teormech/usrimg/file/jivikujazitujuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klubbelgickychobrov.sk/editor_uploads/files/85618341688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interior-mark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68590265618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twtime.com/uploads/files/202109180450598668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanumed.ro/uploads/files/wuzakaxuletijabeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161409058e982d---vitafupipulixapati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabbeleecooking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kovojili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veaodaibrahma.com/uploads/image/files/24532952285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brixtontaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/vuzusilaluwuzugubusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matkinhantai.com/luutru/files/91594881462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614dd8c1111fb---18223739184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sameiroeventos.pt/ficheiros/37111802968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhnguyenvn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/74837855975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkbca.org/UploadFiles/file/20210904235908129.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_off000167c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x167C7 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 2ce49adc5f2c3c39c1a3dbfe9e88bd14c234d31ef187fd822734977d7ba4956d
font_01_sfnt_off0001804b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1804B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001985d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1985D 20216 bytes
SHA-256: 3399296605e4b5b91ebaa225b55b8464bdbfb53f8a63c9d549b21b6cac465632