Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afd35bf647286c56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB Created: 2021-09-22 18:45:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 34bb25f80ee5a99f9f08e03c54d9b578 SHA-1: 0c218523bb06bfc79d64f66a9198e71c7581106b SHA-256: afd35bf647286c5666c92bfa02b80fb62fd0ee5ee1016c69c3fd0281a2f7797a
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely provides instructions to decrypt an archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9888

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://clainvest.pl/userfiles/file/69382245794.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eiffelflowersquesnel.com/userfiles/file/fataxavekenuzobewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zima.italie-ubytovani.cz/data/file/bokabifegorema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/55434627976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartonwrappingmachine.com/userfiles/file/xibelupasavadomuruseje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlssj.com/qianzi/upfile/case_editor/file/81253676041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castel.lu/userfiles/files/98890750522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks-system.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81835232890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://df-2.de/images/daten/file/gemisita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gyndoktors.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rebigivafopelixovufamigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clearpatth.com/userfiles/file/riserurevolega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vatlieutaphu.com/upload/files/81656753743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refpecsbelvaros.hu/kepek/files/nusinetisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thai-apsproducts.com/file_media/file_image/file/beketapokufixipawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kerama.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48141302509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujieshubao.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021091519231273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radio-clipa.ro/userfiles/file/degimimeputanen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k3pvi1g1gafqr7pb61pl5faet0/36009751823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thementalhealthadvocates.org/files/userfiles/file/fukemekepafuzoxodazejoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://museuminiaturesbesalu.com/files/15866830589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6621b5341912754e89021259996bc9ae/borapalap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrator4you.cz/UserFiles/File/46876656262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7924bf48b4a5e59702f9b9ced6b8f20/15148687165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvkinter.com/file_media/file_image/file/91289323070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytlcases.com/userfiles/file/wetunagopikisuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banerjeetourspecial.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72085896873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=computer+pdf+app+downloadPDF 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_off00010c48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C48 17792 bytes
SHA-256: 3ac8a7025c25dc3df5e520d939c9e4fc8371df222ae7313d30d9a9adfda62965
font_01_sfnt_off00013a12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A12 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015229.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15229 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 7e8e637305f8a120dca9c72dc3bc6c2ca6abebd45abf587a498c3f72dd06b57f