Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afc9a2ee6192e636…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 20:03:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d5a61b440e1ba5faf922b3c1a7e489e8 SHA-1: 2eb319e03bbd0ce3f089083b79afe5e1f4ccf8a1 SHA-256: afc9a2ee6192e636acc5ef14fdf35452687eb784296f626714777c69cd58f334
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO poisoning. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://ruihuitax.com/files/file/85055896928.pdf
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094537a89da8---57588792061.pdf
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f60d96464bd9f760453ff88c008df48/19726684839.pdf
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/au1cp65c2bj0me09t92jpgm57p/32063602661.pdf
    • http://sitepride.com/clients/c/c8/c8c605999f3d8352d7bb792cf3fdb25b/File/93432583501.pdf
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd1d2461f4b---76166706421.pdf
    • http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/7757258407.pdf
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5gqi0pl5lsgi1dgp937pv7tk0h/94374606363.pdf
    • http://famillespourstarlight.ca/clients/a/a9/a9b42c05011d3bb27e7f7ec2ed30324f/File/4798852765.pdf
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59abbe186aae2814db2c78e52127fe8b/9891971000.pdf
    • http://physiotherapy-warwickshire.com/user_file/file/76709491486.pdf
    • https://stillwaiting.org/userfiles/file/gobuwigiv.pdf
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88652c818df46d6e37478d9b6600d4e5/92087473017.pdf
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608345c263e86.pdf
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///vegulegikejowasuluwasit.pdf
    • http://allg-gyn.ch/userfiles/file/21857443819.pdf
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/68888274762.pdf
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607025de93958---xemagisuxubuzeka.pdf
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d247fde7275---ganovovurotuna.pdf
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06f043f599c6118f2c64beaf3ee8f706/67679052067.pdf
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc2ed7p2jbop0lm74n3sumesng/22159503451.pdf
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68e33de63a8f92ca32c02f41cbcea73c/gakis.pdf
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3f7ac17cfe---gawuzopenerurufam.pdf
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/repodam.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=automatic+to+manual+driving+licence
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e84e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE84E 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010060.bin
f423acd5bf29d53fce9aead69200fe564a86d05c64662f3c948f44eae5bf627d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10060 16928 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012c17.bin
26f2ace1fe84320863bf342b58629ed3d89d6a1eafdba8ac66d6a102b22acea4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C17 10692 bytes