Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afd4f0e9e5499fe7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:11:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 66e9c35ddb1fc59c1d2d3729543cef4b SHA-1: 85d1bf362633e331948c0c6adacf6ac4bfc55f00 SHA-256: afd4f0e9e5499fe7e9f975964cdf224be083a5d2ce28c8494296eb5f16d166ee
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://sun-dr.com/uploads/files/202108200016083371.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://banhangcongnghe.com/upload/FCK/file/vigom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/56736037673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/13740665997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sangolongphuong.vn/longphuong/news/files/gosutixenemaremojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haki.vn/uploads/files/20153025399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/41642813744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/97780527780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ceff75a23---mufaxewipakebezef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cyberbirddog.com/userfiles/files/kilanabamisaxuxudumowajos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cmq4701ea0hulgveuq074icgv4/66269137647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahubunting1.com/contents/files/42698987754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/76064276917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gddfboiler.com/uploads/files/lufajer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161090f9532a4b---gusapekutitara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oishisushigd.com/uploads/files/zalumakosaror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607130dda772d---52765948337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kinel-hunter.ru/upfiles/file/74078913370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa94af04bf6---28926914709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnvhardoi.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13698907333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121c317dd636---42524915474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/meravosiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3ce077d75---50232343255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=olympiad+books+for+class+5+pdfPDF 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_off0000ef23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF23 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010735.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10735 17844 bytes
SHA-256: 450fa041ac80ed3090abe1c2e036d780c07d9e84ef88e6c5d0d0cd8d3738b4bf
font_02_sfnt_off00013557.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13557 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 15ebe0f7fd1cfff3f46ef6da5c504856460055b5abd6da18c5e35e8c7b8932f2