Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afdc5439269d7a50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-07-04 23:08:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c28bed4693f967fe3072b6ab28515e0c SHA-1: b9457b4581f4de363f3ae5cb946bdf57d1363601 SHA-256: afdc5439269d7a501a716ac1401bd735464783a1c7c9a33a4e0c1aeed123079e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest this PDF is part of a campaign to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=st+michael%27s+sixth+form
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907a9ecc433---xelepis.pdf
    • http://gancza.pl/userfiles/file/wixam.pdf
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/14605036208.pdf
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4b463c4f09---jebupivomidawawu.pdf
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/37928465716.pdf
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pqog41elcg2qag6kfk2mbl98pm/91615498543.pdf
    • http://alt-1c.ru/userfiles/file/rujadevirotowisunowoz.pdf
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882ef03b0e2---90001489308.pdf
    • https://willmarlakesarea2040.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28924903473.pdf
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3cf0f267b0ae8099bc6202050423f97/vatujuxaso.pdf
    • http://laweasy.kr/userfiles/file/wulatejatexasisusukaduzaw.pdf
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/210rqube4meb4jo9aj08d4pnnh/97090503558.pdf
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083057d1f48e---84441160950.pdf
    • http://greenhousehotel.vn/uploads/image/files/9285375989.pdf
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43cab3f200ef5ebee23f2564a7c1306b/39599780918.pdf
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/boluk.pdf
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823b0688f9a---10868793082.pdf
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab1bb30a20d---41412093829.pdf
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d38490ee69---66366652792.pdf
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5719e88ecff13a23cf41d7e297ca64a/nafidavijawa.pdf
    • http://tribo.kz/userfiles/File/gijomifobomokikur.pdf
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d69976bc771---xinabulanerebuvez.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_off0000ee61.bin
2e1216bd4a5e4015eef2c7b2df2855b9fef35108e8412061983157137d01087d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE61 10708 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000106ff.bin
25b79dd934548101637c38e8309bfe393c21904275453e9928ffdb0062971c73
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106FF 17280 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000133b8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133B8 16792 bytes