Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afbe07521a839f24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-07-04 06:46:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c0a90194918a7b74d0d42cde9309903a SHA-1: 52d5f16da7be9bd020746e32a2acb4ab86ca321e SHA-256: afbe07521a839f245182a2bed857ad5f0d694c702b22ba84c7011af5f54d2997
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to these external sites.

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://datatech-int.com/userfiles/file/kuxezuzon.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bungefamily.com/clients/5233/File/pazuvajugarududuwamiwal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872d215133a---4838817838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16076e8fb07e5e---3963257202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2acontractor.it/images/file/38044246255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd0279170df---42606714150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb82727f43---gesafajivivulabiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/97109157059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50v591r0gg9de61dv5rfh185jl/xosonajofulujetosupef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4043ac2e945f64c96da92a74ac9e344d/67021487855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palcev.ru/userfiles/file/4453098740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/390b91598f25756e6fd77d2325c0d910/59561690279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b061076f343---wosoxoketasekaferibodolew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iominneapolis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0044435f987c24b13baf8222a19a3681/nejinanorowifusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosiriosrl.it/userfiles/files/bijakajarawodare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crescentcarpets.com/userfiles/file/dalozakoduluxakiwafav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/un28casdaugq68cmlkd3gtu4v2/63178512975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e613cc76b7---wuwife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://melz-feu.ru/upload/jewerijifugumemubimaredu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7p3st736tcq8ra53eb9gapsuf1/mesejeziwibuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m6m4c0du6i3rh611kjtfceh3nm/51898746008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64f48b880d87fc0c72e38335289626ba/93011541601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092f0aba29c3---81241557783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=o+level+geography+questions+and+answers+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_off0000e48c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE48C 11316 bytes
SHA-256: 08868f4f669fe5d5fa3c3047fc27bd0420a8811ef281d5dae8f40e7ae2f7b2f5
font_01_sfnt_off0000feb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEB0 17244 bytes
SHA-256: 72dd4ccb8e09bae71362ce5a8ff74e316d1340d380b492a392975e37f1f62c8a
font_02_sfnt_off00012bc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BC6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1