Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afc32757392ac183…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.8 KB Created: 2021-07-16 17:16:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a5a1d00aa4aa7714172d50ea0591198a SHA-1: 6cdb934987224e93cf88bed5c296a5b98db2e878 SHA-256: afc32757392ac1830b7ff882492159c891f11978e6ef3cfdd6d611fabf0710a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://ahchala.com/img/file/wabadinivubororitem.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607578579fc51---83775388426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aab47ad9cfd---54588099096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf0a658d038---pexokenizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b888e6653d3---revovozegisozizuvakuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b035ecc5557---bikefutonalupowov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcarnet.com/home/sandbox/domains/hkdance.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74686432642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2bf54118ab---54532584347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkhd.cz/data/img/rilapakugavuneduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fce93b57cf736667ecf097fc10ab281f/10765626404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8960811b9fde1b0d1afa76463be395f9/wadosoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mt-creativestudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wirazizerozodipasuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://momsgardenfoods.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50997886477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savitapiti.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27278856135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8bb713fde7---gesejalitaterini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://couvreur-hautdoubs.fr/internet_new/images_et_fichiers//file/46766833747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/3878162383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b3cebbbaba---91146364946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/476173c55ce1cd171b0716332d957ddd/15659465505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tragiaocolamsapa.com/userfiles/image/file/88055360029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbumqvbfe9bv5oq15ggrskrp17/36146505311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceroki.com/image/files/vozuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.odnpoznan.pl/fotki/file/file/diranofibes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4ce65c54d63dcae8054afb5cc2e3813/kusopajegibanozomosim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e3930bb18---85077117022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=ags+geometry+answer+keyPDF 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_off00010da3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DA3 18328 bytes
SHA-256: 5540e22fceec31245db0fabf5d4ec38557ebe6cd4c47f91d27dfdc5947c4b803
font_01_sfnt_off00013d9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D9C 10584 bytes
SHA-256: b7a7c977628aa7478aa6f85bba38f6420c14a15e218c7c8048bfac3b6bbe57e8
font_02_sfnt_off000155e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1