Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afc332c1318665c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:48:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 38e2f901eb4b993494987f3d5547d448 SHA-1: 41b4196337bf28b6c92db4aefa462e9b2f50f614 SHA-256: afc332c1318665c9df8dfb87869135d03cf33281bb00d9266b9207820f95fa8e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content hosted on these external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q54ukjleum8ij5qume6d1gl490/77677431250.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/muhs71m2hiqkrb2mmgsi6cd9b2/41934239268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/52132364040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863861a38cd---53513788178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surtek.biz/image/files/20150115_221853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b94824eddf9---90643540809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raczcsalad.hu/files/xatavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d56b7eeac---pigoxusoxiralukopezadova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086564f98eaa---18811526189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784e752c2cb---texemog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.apsetedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eec7c7df22---duvenivazutokanisigolal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cz-synergy.cz/data/file/sawege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herve-coiffure.ci/files/50415568690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04i1l3qsig0prl4pn27vfjraha/88466671666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609402a126808---sivobexijug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5kh6s84jnvgi4vtjppb4h1tm11/toduboxejeminilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nordicaluminium.ru/userfiles/file/33613572425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c77a84ab14---taresokazam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visionbrindes.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/nivekoralidogup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160818bf4a5e1c---xavazugotomenawikozalis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d7a4af60b---45512057839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eviljoy.com/UserFiles/File/64665966340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nirmalujjwal.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tidumasasuges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=the+word+honkyPDF 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_off0000f114.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF114 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001092b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1092B 10036 bytes
SHA-256: f4ccacc7f9d0cc489c75d1cbc447cd609a646d866e2d46f3eca179db06eec825
font_02_sfnt_off00011f6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F6F 17344 bytes
SHA-256: a5f0db141411f91b58a22ae4235331bc2a3aa5e4d586d10ba403974e426be556