Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afbc05bc9511e4f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 01:59:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8524add8bd4131f5809f6231b612aa4f SHA-1: 2ab874848ba132599376d305836337039aefb330 SHA-256: afbc05bc9511e4f914fc13eca49315363187652aee8da8477a1bc0a33cf7b8c3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+template+for+biodata+for+marriage PDF link annotation
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811f5d28453---bosuxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160979997ba40e---pokavulawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b26fcdb9ed9---pufozufedojadinajula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e8c69ae76---68750612610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2a4ed7991b---beruninogalamijeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160895eb520e25---25394860217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/74686837923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/taxesizuzejarizajoxodanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/86867616427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamtimeshare.com/userfiles/file/wijiwudifejekojodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://22743333.com/userfiles/files/90172613521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb68059a587b043e642359ce0c2df905/likozekogusutepawedije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af982298501---48296393281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80583opq1bleoq544cshtan1m8/bomaxabavodemubasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfvajpa3b0mogku6iugr8sg2j5/rupop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bef4ec51080b290e475976daaaecb5b0/56819381915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4219884167fff5be71600229137fc0dc/dobibumewupaxemepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menlopark.com/wysiwygfiles/file/lepulese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4130f2a90979573cfdcb3b2b3804aaf8/pofajadajimezutefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86alj8uhu7a91hgrcvg0foeq7b/kuwejubikimapatoperoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6b3ae198c610ee6e5c77aed5ffd7b57/rumokirefos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whs1979.net/clients/65916/File/nozazuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22f56eb8c9363a5f17806d17eb9b4fdc/teburewanusiseza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaatlantida.com/userfiles/file///99252430455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/xanamilidi.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_off0000ed0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED0E 10688 bytes
SHA-256: cd136354d76a46a48bfadf4eab5da017e0257771a4cb0ab887df44ec8885bc4a
font_01_sfnt_off0001050c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1050C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D1E 17008 bytes
SHA-256: fd2bb0349ee12660ee56a7d0c75ff5514c5d33255e1a9cedff7fc6e1eccb7afb