Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afd8498aa5f8a537…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.9 KB Created: 2021-08-05 08:13:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 545f83fec1558b221a2248ac58889dea SHA-1: 952d6f44c2b46ef9517a4afbdab2229e67873eb1 SHA-256: afd8498aa5f8a537e0087100ecad168549404cc9f2f0cd3d741a6802da0c4aa5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to external domains, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9877

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://ngnjl.com/userfiles/files/43384381381.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mateuszkucharski.pl/admin/file/tojumerobomerinani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad4d6d4cff21c488fb575375e8f1c9aa/wivodejeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160834ecb6086f---91641508746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banhangcongnghe.com/upload/FCK/file/1173696079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediagrand.hu//data/editorfile/rubiloxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84af181b37---72152476823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a9a67171be---15237879104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mini-garden.ru/userfiles/file/losevatuleber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b1fbaeabda---gagasapinum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9242089747d699f0ca5bcbbe7442743/bojepelurifika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pobierzplik.pl/uploads/files/167638693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leganordavigliana.it/uploads/file/49656673358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1982thsreunion.com/clients/a/a8/a85c6617a93da1462bf6c3e7dda9c043/File/tumuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/xabipatogerilivelipol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c482ac058884838972ff336cad4d10b0/vebatuzakilupiduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.org/files/galeria/files/37964479486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabriziocar.it/userfiles/files/vovokagoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607666987eec7---974878589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panyuchen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/27276949926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708def80d25---62893326711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607145bf35370---sazulomipugotalovamef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607285ab18fbf---61886766793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16078e17b4646e---gezekanujunudusolujegugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogies.com/includes/template/uploads/file/kiwigoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4bf2824df---sutukipokinezitum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legend-chang.com/UserFiles/files/bimefon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=%C2%BFcu%C3%A1les+son+los+medios+de+comunicacion+m%C3%A1s+antiguos+y+modernosPDF 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_off00011f19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F19 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 1ec432c3fc699b1a789406ff51a2a564dd96ab3385150155f403eaf96a8de742
font_01_sfnt_off00013892.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13892 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000150a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150A4 19072 bytes
SHA-256: 1e1ed947bd7a3727e9999dba69fe233ff4b0c4a49c7a61c61feb9f5eab1d71d3