Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afccf3bb2a03d550…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 03:09:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 16d0f0405702ab8af2533b568393dd9a SHA-1: 4e20aff9888ddd5f2955f377ab188a79da0de1e4 SHA-256: afccf3bb2a03d55009cc1845a83b1a6c79931d7f855a57091d11468ad5494463
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 Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not explicitly detailed, is a common method for initiating malicious actions within PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=feedback+control+systems+by+phillips+and+harbor+solution+manual+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/42918330096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e01b5f623d5---61633343696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a38f14880e025996ba013ad74de9d738/ludolagud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiconghoixuancong.com/Khicong/admin/userfiles/file/bolizevudateboxoxamogeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76fa13ed9c2517e8f8dcacac88877203/14234360187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexus-study-abroad-travel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/15907010914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangprice.com/bangprice.com/beta/cms_image/file/65640345960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbkd8nei103v6jpm8hmsq0ijs5/genagigaxatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc3bebd1137---xedusodifasumubix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e5a75356b---wukesoxagiwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychologgia.pl/Upload/file/vumejovetuviwogemimagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-30/20210730041555327619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scuolascifondocortinadolomiti.it/userfiles/files/1413998414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sculecuacumulator.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/bulafeneloworowunituwevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121ec1fa173c---82962907576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salon-urody-bellis.pl/images/file/71004812086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hit-air.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2210427512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607247df71627---80008202432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/bemimevoletejixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/govalidadojusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ausztriasi.spawellness.hu/upload/hirlevel/files/pipolejimaxulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnyten.net/userData/board/file/70415802148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellarp.com/userfiles/file/33671600055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0cc70e6a8e---fimimexijaruke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngonluathan.com/images/ckeditor/files/8845299664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612aaf09c3071---60439848675.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_off0000cc99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC99 11308 bytes
SHA-256: 76b76cdaddfcdeb8b015a8364ba5e92f05334cd787325161a41dfa6eb87815cd
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6C3 20672 bytes
SHA-256: d5ed90a8c4db7f9abc20bd1ca037a0032015c7544d40187b7bd6a2b33960f8bb
font_02_sfnt_off00011d40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D40 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1