Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 affb98489a4205a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-09-23 05:37:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 25c80cd9e3e21ca7dcfb775e93934969 SHA-1: 885ab7f830e8178c58a97ddb9afd660412548942 SHA-256: affb98489a4205a861400e78ef2fbed6d2e91a8b85c0f70e0f1ed4df80c0dd66
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links and the overall detection profile strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ray+bradbury+fahrenheit+451+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://immobiliareborghi.com/userfiles/files/rigenesedupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kidsjeodo.com/images/files/gijitam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiszaladany.hu/upload/file/62392984269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-bouquet.be/userfiles/files/mipigexuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juha.be/_files/file/kufijokuduzopigidimuruteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teacherandtraining.com/coj_u/KK/userfiles/files/gixalijidoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135b9912a8b4---wofuvivisido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ae9807a81d---1258140498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://change4best.ru/upload/file/voxogofuruveke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613363c4b7e08---65541914595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sapthagireesyathra.com/userfiles/file/64651793585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dazesezefikobemita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakuragiramenandsushi.com/uploads/files/71180237495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34aab6337b8482d274ef2b214fa9a99c/6591075818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halongwave.com/userfiles/file/36224028999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34e51b2cedc6cc6ccd250985b09caf9b/zuforod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banquat.com/userfiles/files/kifatukuwopipabukelewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leise.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rebiwafijuwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vagtteam.dk/userfiles/Files/37621654098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euroear.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pexogevubuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://llbyggodesign.se/UserFiles/files/febexabesibozabenorul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bosingels.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zitadel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613faa8f964c5---46905012879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietucmould.com/img-vietuc/files/21770810573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murasakijr.com/uploads/files/90121126761.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_off0000b3b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3B5 16392 bytes
SHA-256: 9e3311408a81862b77f692c71190b5d018aaddf0b9e722fb71a3a3ebfbc9c9bc
font_01_sfnt_off0000dda0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDA0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f5b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5B7 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 224417f36615a69f47d28457d357f173ee083e04eb6a0807abc83782fd1ed6a4

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