Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afe9d6372bc0068c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-09-11 06:45:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: c2b4b4350e47e8d1ff7edb534fc0e9b3 SHA-1: a3c266a25815eda44582dbe006c117557634d8cf SHA-256: afe9d6372bc0068c7c8dc44ac4ec47c5c0b3bcc826cd0b4f93de26482f28c2d0
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious payloads, likely other PDFs or executables.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://140.121.180.103/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sasofir.pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161389e35d0376---zawatikobubozojarojowiwir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://195exim.com/datas/files/duvadujode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluewhaleline.com/image/upload/File/wesarolipolugine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f73f71c2011db8427f1f25b7391b26e3/nipumumifojemav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brcassociati.com/userfiles/files/96992886087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613509cac107e---tutikisog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132ef2571959---kigupudonatazoguputenefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ea482e0565---34142421688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trickapotisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6946389850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vijyaiprismcrm.com/userfiles/files/11707862661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/25793939608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noventa.cz/media/files/file/15437958309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrickstaxi.fr/userfiles/file/leseguwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-8/20210908223316882975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imosa.asia/uploads/files/202109091430245898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socukorglutamatmentesfuszer.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98995292730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vialivonica.eu/userfiles/files/zipalutagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fecirturizm.com/resimler/files/31421714282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136c9ecc95e6---zogivurikasijeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemculture.com/userfiles/file/16926967076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myoffice2561.sesao33.net/UserFiles/File/93779084218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marasintl.com/public/ckfinderuploads/files/gagasufojelepudilamoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+continuously+share+location+on+androidPDF 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_off0000be23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE23 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 2ec3150811a330a85b6edb59b9671c944445a4c7526a873abfd893af51b78c2c
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6E0 15288 bytes
SHA-256: f79af0997911fe705acb7132e777358db567b80748f5e0d18d100a7f3ae88015
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE0B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1