Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afaf43d69906c188…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-08-23 17:21:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: b23db0fad419966ca3327b07269c67ef SHA-1: 0dfb906a39f97c835d0d62f07fb43b05db632e96 SHA-256: afaf43d69906c188868b9f6ef4d2c7bd756f757e0d912524a0592074a88198e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/28984818667.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b0941e0a3957dacec1b80511aa63418/528466146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipagents.nl/uploadfiles/file/pefufemezizugaxeberajol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babamore.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210601180336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywayrtk.info/userfiles/file/93033665131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shimoltd.ru/images/file/34080616611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/vivopukum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derkwoo.com/upload/editor/files/wunopeditagubomos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businesslegalgroup.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/peridekipivagak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hchs1972.com/clients/2/2c/2cb73362227bcfbd3ed6ae01b5b3dc46/File/mewiseragi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2d30d71832370db25a07b53b134bfe7/jerutovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e6b79c36b5d1d4e5ee14150e3cd24e7/81661044108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/samirirosigozovobot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rvcugmqruull6td9dgo5c2hg0d/4007350665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611db756c1b1b---xokevojapusisomovavilulul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/zeregeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k4kvcl5ao2i9ifru3n5is703b7/56064610949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manpukuorder.com/uploads/files/nexawexusinimafuvuguzux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.propper-droppers.nl/files/file/55720199378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e6ae93d223---zefotab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b06653f93---vabigobizenumolilube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asianmosaicnyc.com/userfiles/file/zakisuvegexodikage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a68ae587e3---56316293637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbhs1965.com/clients/6/6b/6bdd8f708684a1f547efbf97e1630fe5/File/798637129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=i+am+approachablePDF 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_off0000e5cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5CD 10268 bytes
SHA-256: 8e116fee8f860981513893ab14776f027a53d7f05405e2cc49f3cf0d63cf896a
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC97 16556 bytes
SHA-256: 55431f006769b1fe8e11c77e8c30ccb4847d2195ac8836eee51669c913940c61
font_02_sfnt_off000127a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1