Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afe5cbf2a1a5f024…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-07-22 03:01:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 10c1566cd94895bb2b17be69021ea761 SHA-1: 90c0cda09288cce90f1b214cd66d5e56a7e8d4cb SHA-256: afe5cbf2a1a5f024bc8f9b03767b0a44f82150f0511d15bc70aad184b9f70f2c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with several URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final destination. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external links and the overall structure indicate a phishing or redirection attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9906

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://pension-erlkoenig.de/img/editor/file/85833175261.pdf
    • http://dailythang.com/userfiles/files/77185515674.pdf
    • https://champion-osk.pl/userfiles/file/27309251730.pdf
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/39604255776.pdf
    • https://rubyyadav.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/relafebuwugi.pdf
    • http://hosungtour.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210703_449DAEB688C02530.pdf
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e09ee152aff---tazikesovuxitimugu.pdf
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28t4ldq3hfj8l5jep5qg681tbg/lipez.pdf
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160718b6a21187---didev.pdf
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/80454600379.pdf
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d9c3cb0673---7821074254.pdf
    • https://gwynharmon.com/home/gwyn/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/litobesajebosenufo.pdf
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3143fc4b36cd2bde1f69fb95f371101/66710482703.pdf
    • https://papersacksfactory.ae/images/bulk_images/files/20950431344.pdf
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-21/20210521001205723463.pdf
    • http://bio86.fr/fichiers/somedilimobevefutum.pdf
    • http://longearedhounds.com/clients/65743/File/setakatebuli.pdf
    • http://abwpetersburg.com/uploads/files/dofejatotedevefikili.pdf
    • https://scalper.ir/data/files/file/norisovinikuvugexerofe.pdf
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d57f7607dbeabf7e44a0784ac62a0e0f/zabipimovufapevakiw.pdf
    • http://www.umadai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54812990053.pdf
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c35mjokrq7dt98nhj938igu2v/43210585386.pdf
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a57872f474---50969717628.pdf
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eokictrjc2kvb0labvhsmpdv7/folunoweravabuwurag.pdf
    • https://martabaktelor.com/contents//files/zukodogufiparadijewakasin.pdf
    • http://fanti-fitness.pl/uploads/assets/file/79517772100.pdf
    • https://tessuno.com/upload/files/60dc1e4213562.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=introduction+to+embedded+systems+shibu+kv+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_off0000fdf2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDF2 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011609.bin
44b5123f02ed21387ba1e7004e466c1e7ac906f66e552be63847638a70b344eb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11609 11140 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012fb8.bin
58eb7d386731f32364051ac1b1c79e363df2f8ae4d26b2a3ecdb0e703c4d0f5f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FB8 17700 bytes