Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afaf02bfe982798b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 03:08:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 64bb6d1da2140a5f2f4953470e0df378 SHA-1: 8a8f13deca45cb220db89ca0471f17f0d7f9e180 SHA-256: afaf02bfe982798be03c81ac0a0cd58ceb1bf06178d4a85a01c4bdce294b1dc2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to exploit users by directing them to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b87b4e420ac---senibaduxu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wolfroccatiassociati.it/userfiles/files/11872285444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaimassageboy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nabolobivukofarozizajukes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/376d747316c1ec8e047c3b207cd86d7d/10539282758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hir4s0l3vjaf6n91c96abd1s17/jewipotakevitipajisosux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://escaletravel.com/userfiles/files/wexozujobubur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://driftwoodcc.com/userfiles/files/pumoxurudonetewidim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reunionclass.com/clients/7469/File/66685598618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/85562238057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edccbb1e5a4---81650023780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tr4up7l5j60nf4i1elrtc5mjt8/gosovikunag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mujeresenmovimientoplus.com/userfiles/file/11839113045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hermangroupcorp.com/clients/3/38/389628ddbd62db2fa1e4299ecdfc1861/File/detebuxifuzitidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gancza.pl/userfiles/file/41082124298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/in8sr2afrgldqmcmkqtai51rnk/48573322244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pvvc.cz/files/gogewibejojujuvazosoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ural-aiti.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64640734170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minuspk.ru/minuspk.ru/userfiles/file/damoruvoromekivejizozoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff53e3e173a---67981528363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160840f914bdf6---luwuxazometuvati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/53964117219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duvanco.be/docs/files/44603486588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--49s538bo8ux8c.net/userfiles/file/rapunofomofududezubuwonim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/munus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=zambia+mineral+map+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_off0000dc9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC9A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4B1 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 73ec43e5f13c189d49b65da414e91f0736c405d18fd80b91cdb4fb8673f571e2
font_02_sfnt_off00010bcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BCC 17564 bytes
SHA-256: dd4232d6338d570ad5f1abbcd7f3ad5036bc556cf0dff60c7fe560f076bdb9c5

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