Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aff42ce73e86e407…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 07:03:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9017814abaf9bf566931c5362f19d5b2 SHA-1: 723b3cb1bafb2063dfe62a17a73f971acca9e882 SHA-256: aff42ce73e86e4075c965fffbf503d55f5656a1f2a8dadec7eafcff06f32f326
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm nature are indicative of techniques used to deliver malicious payloads or redirect users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=new+living+translation+bible+download+for+pc PDF link annotation
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/7456031293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ki35b266lcbdp3b5he3gh3sd2s/wojegene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/67350736625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a918fd06739---xesena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://life-worldwide.org/assets/uploads/files/vebas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bocghebinhduong.com/media/ftp/file/jadolufumonatabik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nstoplana.rs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jaripijomozigowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abd0148edae34b7df55029dbe5fd55a6/lizemupomogatuzuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/kivulukojadavuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a0ee94d422---dilin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laserinnsbruck.com/static/3775733366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tostonet.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61926492496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidequipment.com/public_html/userfiles/file/56598748621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/57576613348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074ff9b1f755---30311528464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20c2bc6715e9d5b1993a64d5c51c56f9/61490418724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612714ac2c020---nufaxelosomote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/585af9c8ccc71239ac767431764e9a01/laraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mcir4fgkpja345f9eam61cu693/66614838797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ded78823e---pupiruzajisujakifulevod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romangruszecki.com/uploaded/file/23934856564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anctools.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8248835859.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_off0000eb3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB3C 17952 bytes
SHA-256: fc29a89a5a9867c4fa2c7489f36bb9cdc8e63a02f63d8d38f0da1f14afb9fab0
font_01_sfnt_off00011a61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A61 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013278.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13278 11064 bytes
SHA-256: 14f25365301c8ed7048d6591666c0256f810e9f8cb95041a721915ee9f137b40

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