Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afab3f4324023402…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 07:56:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ff7877282f815ddd691dc91c0324287c SHA-1: 2a846d0ac97bce08121f7d2e66f7a5350305fb85 SHA-256: afab3f4324023402fa699d6745801f46665ec7ec5e9bea45d34caa164c4a71db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://rhuyscampingcar.fr/images/files/bexiv.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b276d4f4ba---puvevaluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citra.cl/userfiles/file/tidanufexig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://subarini.ro/mm/file/perufokalab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafepiolho.com/uploads/assets/78052373464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makenie.com/upload/files/mudorilipiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readandenjoy.ae/userfiles/files/pesikewezukab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://119hero.kr/userData/board/file/30906333647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.octopus-quatuorvocal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zejadefoxemevud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/280610458395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafegreenwichvillage.com/uploads/files/71167059285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://australiancaravancentre.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76375620517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicolari.it/userfiles/files/32491405819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e5418993b---nimewexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdc.ir/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83206723708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8c940f815649b623063105c1381cf43/jifinoxamomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07842dde7333a043ac525c0fc7404931/tibozasekunadirozetorosen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60664c723a929d7082f2715115c14cc1/75909375401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyyoutubelikes.com/ci/userfiles/files/28131987475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/25341652990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/tideperepajade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/232udsrk74er0umnloimgvud1u/90987219686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/60549740978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae69869f893514f929274df31f1970d9/55747311100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=carmina+burana+lyrics+pdfPDF 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_off000141e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141E3 21284 bytes
SHA-256: 3334d62cb9f9f9c7b73c5fbbacc97676bd46099152df4b0e561a90e22bcfd69a
font_01_sfnt_off00017865.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17865 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001907c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1907C 10816 bytes
SHA-256: cb33735ca49da02239d4483689927238ce2adfd489bb1e6c13f95e1d598d2921