Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afe889fbcea50bb8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-09-25 09:45:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: faba2c47ad0f3281dfc04db37dfbad14 SHA-1: c651a3b8df9ba2cdd9416ac17d7ed0f4c1b6d384 SHA-256: afe889fbcea50bb841b015d4638c589cae85baff6f8fe1db0de7aa50a35ea820
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+studio+music+app PDF link annotation
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1630591760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kool-house.com/upload/editor/file/54975476851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teleserviciomalaga.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59521952357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rapabzenec.cz/obrazky/files/40461002203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63778c9b5cb3c7dc7ffc7a6e7de4752d/91692117634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watertorens.nl/userfiles/file/femekagona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chief-moving.com/editor_upload/file/81476463273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asoriofrio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bolugixudedak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuni.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/xigofililafem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147fc75a79ce---46155921767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotoner123.com/home/autotone/public_html/ckeditortest_WORKING/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21151231567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astprom.ru/sites/default/files/file/xuwigetawabavugiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peneleos.pl/userfiles/file/73997322379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenfountains.com/uplds/file/kovesafawepili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://granitemountainranch.net/userimages/4930984721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xindeshiye.com/uploadfile/file///2021092315014333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141d02de4768---binukodewuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rainhouse.kr/data/editor/file/10376188126143d0afb4b6f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anais.terminarz.online/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/60576059377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahha.az/userfiles/file/48806041862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qapoll.com/2015/vat/upload/files/5106088004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tutaylamhet.com/storage/ckfinder/files/nizudixofezabiritoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eviljoy.com/UserFiles/File/rodixarofudagepekasize.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_off0000b0b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0B8 10576 bytes
SHA-256: cbdf4627eee8829637ba199d4c9b1880112e4c96043fe3689aed083308c5b6d1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8E1 15484 bytes
SHA-256: 1504a95af97f04f8fcedc2b5c115c4036611ed13420ba2bb8eff000978692b17
font_02_sfnt_off0000efd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFD5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1