Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afc8859a8f67f81b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 17:17:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: af75afa46f5520ab3e91508f7b08f0e6 SHA-1: 66773f52da1c812d43ae43a608160a8937bae56e SHA-256: afc8859a8f67f81bbb26be211166115ebb3f967565c71c84b5fc25196e800cef
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous links, many pointing to disposable hosting, and impersonates cloud document sharing services to lure users. The embedded URLs and link farm heuristics suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious websites for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • Cloud document impersonation lure medium SE_CLOUD_DOC_LURE
    Document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or Microsoft 365 and asks the user to open, verify, or access a shared document
  • 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://www.shjkyq.com/up_files/FCK/file/4848250361.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariocamali.com/userfiles/files/ketokek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millionsdiscount.com/mo_images/files/novejozup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showdoimovel.com/files/files/pibolutesekewiloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poulinstrapscan.com/userfiles/file/jonakukaxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertermo.nl/userfiles/file/vawezoxudej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/obo9f4ctj4jdjc6k6its6t1s24/38899391414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goghepcacloai.com/media/ftp/file/18247518420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldanang.com/uploads/images/files/lefewajomufiditadimaraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mundolibre.cl/uploads/userfiles/files/moxunawitetisowizubeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gewoongroen.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/xudogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132c8b12dba7---rojas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotem.com/data/home/qxu1780220113/htdocs/uploadfile/files/38578448117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divanich96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53723791910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139684917ca5---17883407807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24hnbc.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/wewenexovezelabovemawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bahtiyardishekimi.com/fckfiles/file/jirakifume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariailmarzocco.it/userfiles/files/rigoxelikabitoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whuntex.ru/userfiles/file/guranokedubojirugerasuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138c21639b44---jujopilesawoluvudad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rdw-wolf.de/backend/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rorozigurutasuvemewag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a912012ad7---28966878518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humansharehouse.com/userData/board/file/94571483077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsbuffalo.com/uploads/files/wumonizirikegijepemitamus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+restore+data+from+old+android+phonePDF 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_off0000e708.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE708 18352 bytes
SHA-256: e30d21f3bf1dab2b6572cbd9b83adcfb26331c243410cadbe7747d05da719e18
font_01_sfnt_off0001164f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1164F 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 8e634069dcec0377316c8dbe531caf2fe75e8ce4c72ec37a044c1123c6eff9bf
font_02_sfnt_off00012f24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F24 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1