Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af984dab2cbc21d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-05 09:07:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 5ff07ad79602041dbd8b391dced140e9 SHA-1: 643830249047f6a49e51dfea31a9265742dd2ec0 SHA-256: af984dab2cbc21d821057a2704ed6dfd9386bfc51178efcc103177b3df6ba1a1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan variant. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic firings indicate a pattern of link farming and the use of compromised CMS uploads, reinforcing the phishing or malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nonfiction+reading+test+mongooses+answer+key PDF link annotation
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b56f82407ad10a2dd3b51c8ba7ad7311/mezajikajaxozodatebogir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c600bb35b51---11212151778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f3097ecb4e---musepimakopunoludomijaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etasystem.net/userfiles/files/valifijix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gemulafenuzafaranemorudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/diwumivigopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c85df0291c---migiketujavarosis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cba2f3435a---10527830382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igorodstore.ru/files/userfiles/files/lakebinezawesal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bombapin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/82860618549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8d24f1fc42---85308777515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/19110205189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b08509aedb6---fudejidifesubesedunor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a01106a28f0733e2d5fec0c4b686117a/ludobitir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metapolar.hu/tmp/22033587331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limitlessillusion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0da6407d67d28a9c516baaeb575b0bf7/japiwesavomusudupobojob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609750308cf88---16582381650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/22346396901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ftkcmkiocb7dcsete5scisl4u/losivoxikagexevaxubabig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f85f421fc4f385a7878dd03a1512b64/87100898599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/928830b34f49d379c15a18fc9edbf8c4/vefivilizufegefunoren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/magagelunop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/16733702208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/xiziwivutajasopizoxavun.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_off0000e4a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4A6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCBD 11040 bytes
SHA-256: b27bc8a5eab1c975ccc8d0d3869074c2e4de67279525894f0f9656e8de8516f7
font_02_sfnt_off00011651.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11651 17264 bytes
SHA-256: 568b01cd0810fd05553222b8e65f2ff292c3717179e2c4201d0ed4e94865375d