Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afea82819662c23c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 04:34:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 565382409c71254ec3fc1036ab42eea4 SHA-1: b10fdd500bbc5328d51437ef04aef94d996ae438 SHA-256: afea82819662c23c8a313e619ce360499168d7268f8d820393c726e30f8eb462
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0b6a1bd7dca38fac1d4c6cd6f93f116/57286637872.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/vuniresikagukidoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/12338418736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084198a143e9---21060842100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd123d97c8190e18b73c653e028fb3f4/17190353031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibson100.com/clients/870224/File/femafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tabularasa.lv/sites/tabularasa/uploads/documents/files/5347778854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autowagon.it/userfiles/files/fujeruwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a509e2f6c---8473724955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kraftyz.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/batizoreva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yishiweb.com/upfiles/files/20210620_203201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce1d0d6e17---rajuwujateroteladovajexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9ba80cbeca8bddefad35448b831aaf4/46686673886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b746c3f084---nisosukete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608766c9e7a54---80970775776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e54c7d188012263366073c37ba3db4d9/72545775158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kochamsushi.pl/UserFiles/file/70952122919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a727a85eec---2545639647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamachine.nl/userfiles/file/87193207349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aac5dae6e1a---nixefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed0f81521f---64906429035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r1b8j85584r29ejgnkvrstvcb8/tabazokajumuguwowosobulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perechen-jurnalov.ru/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5826772753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=php+array+contains+keyPDF 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_off0000b6c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6C1 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 9dc25352b21c4f1052254d8b36048c9e36657d232832c6cca5b6b87d5c7effd3
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF1F 15352 bytes
SHA-256: 3a29404ec23d3579cf0b7942ccb23353b6a07376ef63d421503515699cd8f17c
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1