Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afcb7777439101fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 12:52:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e04c838086f68d2f1325cb3d55e3b154 SHA-1: 928d52b94144b4a530857a45f8cb476ed1348164 SHA-256: afcb7777439101fabd721e7db07b553e3497814c3e234d7f8b16d0c8cded19df
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external resources, many hosted on compromised websites or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=let%27s+talk+life+science+book+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/pimerewibubalod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oddluzanie.net/userfiles/file/golirarufupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/23286724722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d82c54ce421f3a74020d8485aa56b15/74523139928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b83fur1uagfle7tlmpl8m36s0/45665044844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debo-fit.be/userfiles/file///98170344591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116ac5036cea---nedaxadevesazufub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archerelectricsupply.com/userfiles/file/roruxoketori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idd.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57988222753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/ketevopamotojimukolozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicamarsala.it/userfiles/files/nirof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrarontani.it/userfiles/files/xapuduzovasazuzuwuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://professional-tuner.at/uploaded/file/79894041225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://opuntia.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb23c1d577e590210eb414eef267d640/84243521135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkycc4.com/kycc4.com/userfiles/files/dewesudigufemonijokanas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muacash.com/webroot/img/files/lodinatof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingcraftviet.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/73452788223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2755bef7f1---72738420026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--clinicaquirogavilario-vbc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7k8b94d4l9n62klq5o78vfq515/69134155063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bearings-home.com/userfiles/file/betukaruviboxaxupabiwusit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dcb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCB6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4CD 10820 bytes
SHA-256: dbc07185a8a205a3282be678940db17b05ca3df5aea752226ed645e52bf7e116
font_02_sfnt_off00010dc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DC5 18972 bytes
SHA-256: 4bbe508e73d1c6cf72889eccae08bf26d8655fa4446c31e909709b2748ac98a7