Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afd3bae57d99678c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-08-04 19:13:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: dbc0e313b8b10f7eae771b59d5329ba5 SHA-1: 7053e6940fe73ca0ee61a64be4cdc439278c9e4c SHA-256: afd3bae57d99678c066bd7bb59d884930874af197660f9493d23346dcc5d66f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=street+racing+games+unblocked
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df9fsmi6ofb3n7j0lp7m973530/tixenijiba.pdf
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a770c5d4fd5---35057119587.pdf
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c82f4e8757f2e070cb206240024f830f/24977803683.pdf
    • https://www.tunnel.de/files/uploaded/file/xabixanaxozag.pdf
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gbuin0bie83nju7epfq7dqo1fp/68965798129.pdf
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/588d10c6a60b98744e9be19ae42b1b9a/zasesafibobamutira.pdf
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/ludageteba.pdf
    • http://live-lessons.net/lcj/web/uploads/assets/file/dinowonujiwuzuliwudekobar.pdf
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f84f6b44f581b1258bfb0ad11e98fab/60531208292.pdf
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af15667826c582a5146d36d1240d12b4/61250602573.pdf
    • http://gojjang.com/uploads/files/21509055386.pdf
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608be97c8f072---49888476267.pdf
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844eb0c39ba---xutobomonaxaxafebizuxude.pdf
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/moxawemepibikawugirin.pdf
    • http://conflictfreeelectronics.com/ourprojects/chowki/UserFiles/renuka/file/witizopufi.pdf
    • https://carmelocuritiba.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63315507944.pdf
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/860ea99376fce202b92dd8b26f70364a/forijanirixutoxomokukubew.pdf
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/he6q6g20qhl8mv2bcjqg37dke1/jazidobatenujolinepiba.pdf
    • https://ehbo-oostkapelle.nl/userfiles/file/26732612572.pdf
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31581d73a6947401b10f739da09dd835/57869020324.pdf
    • http://clairvoyantinfotech.com/demo/images/zubivixe.pdf
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3830977c88---wavavobeziset.pdf
    • 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_off0000cf66.bin
15d01d71ec5fb1d4643cf3052ce40a6703026f3cdb6975a36803d4fa0e849575
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF66 11120 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e918.bin
b595ac2421a7191b363a47e011139167f7b1f66f3416d9955d2ce0568dd5ba81
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE918 16228 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011318.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11318 16792 bytes