Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afcff887ac0eb68d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-19 00:53:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a81455e50a72d55bd5321fda9507bf52 SHA-1: a91c893f02635a8181de1e42899b8879e8be4aa8 SHA-256: afcff887ac0eb68d42761b5ec4d03fd090f43f56d1f891d82f3460c4d1a79512
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. Several embedded URLs point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide direct clues to its intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://samurairamenbar.com/uploads/files/48421167290.pdf
    • http://thesciencenetwork.org/uploads/files/rafetisanu.pdf
    • http://saraya-shop.ru/upload/files/50172760604.pdf
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/19429079871.pdf
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413c81e8be7---zapomisek.pdf
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/fuwotajew.pdf
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9b8d21b909993c04c3d6cf4749790ce/95480790597.pdf
    • http://autowassenindex.nl/images/uploads/23640999859.pdf
    • http://thetsaban3watnuea.com/UserFiles/file/57547186111.pdf
    • https://nayyaralidada.net/alpha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xugerarotonoletedusapaz.pdf
    • http://gabinetpro.gabinetpro.pl/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/49193567845.pdf
    • http://bartuceviri.com/userfiles/file/27643388934.pdf
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161320ae82cc68---69265366534.pdf
    • https://subded.org/userfiles/file/12402415756.pdf
    • http://agroanaliz.by/upload/editor/files/3550591435.pdf
    • http://micronforgacsolo.hu/UserFiles/file/36010059706.pdf
    • https://affordans.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sinividijale.pdf
    • http://zsmnowakowski.pl/userfiles/file/fekakir.pdf
    • http://spharma.ua/files/file/sewifajemevefapuripe.pdf
    • http://bongoes62.dk/userfiles/file/36326827576.pdf
    • https://alaskaproauto.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/mefudonapuliwidabuso.pdf
    • http://bangdinhphucat.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/zejoputuresaziluweputaxub.pdf
    • https://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/gojelitizu.pdf
    • http://kleinschaden.expert/userfiles/file/21733036862.pdf
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139bd8b7ebec---93836550753.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=fighter+pilot+games+android
    • 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_off0000e8df.bin
263c244278bcba85d5856932a1c6a57bb5528ad44a67f2e58d4068baf23a6436
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8DF 10816 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001015c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1015C 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001196e.bin
f29b5dd154d4f2167ea69dc672623a7ea9ed0774b1bbb4fdb3f57bcd71154c37
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1196E 18992 bytes