Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afd84336cfd3ff70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 06:08:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 5e6b58e2d6ff7d3196a4c0578856ab63 SHA-1: 94d1c12daec329cf80e7b6b8e90f4df075d8c212 SHA-256: afd84336cfd3ff70fb5d7c923f1a2543b996638a67b97a08efdc8d59c7193619
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to compromised websites or phishing pages. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters indicate an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=alphabet+letters+with+pictures+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160caea672975e---83360873364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c05235cf094dcbdd08f471faf7a6a28f/rikajiziwotidag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachfirebrands.com/userfiles/file/mawuvenupajakepimire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c34cb7b712a86c1a87bcc18bc84ebfa/bazenona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/xezobozaviwekunejegak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avayemehr-carpet.ir/data/file/30456380890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://email-database.info/userfiles/file/67615274595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a3c6c972e---97446823296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34a5d8789d8ac8f6afca918d2410acea/18890117799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fueandhair.com/userfiles/files/1337589148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/179405e50512c929ec8e58a95707ff13/23961344889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b568acb4a69---ratugumumafafuwesabuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/fedoxuzipopulinelewilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076339118d13---4771306161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hse.tw/upload/file/majugefunoxilevor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/83877367953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emprenderem.cl/files/ratodufunegekema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomaglio.it/userfiles/files/6375971244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eqonetech.com/upload/userfiles/files/patexadutuvela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e204576da0b3611c0670a28c5a296e03/1861151228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b1e6e98ac6b3c6b86e31030487f4eba/57963042042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160980ca10d75a---xisewopusetomejadilakade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/abureduveridoxugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huh.hu/UserFiles/File/2626442692.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_off0000c1e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1E0 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 60cfcf9e71d467070e89df414e6d740fad0facd6f89f30e219248eeaf28e0a99
font_01_sfnt_off0000dac3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAC3 16972 bytes
SHA-256: f7ee5ce6b3afd2c851a709f434e0f1ac3b2c0d8c6671c760f2aec6caaa795bda
font_02_sfnt_off000106f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1