Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 affd85ed1bc69d41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 05:51:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: d958b36f5384b2bd03cc3ee1eced42a5 SHA-1: 9ee7ed3f9563c6e47c4d4758b8ccf24e8530980f SHA-256: affd85ed1bc69d4164445772d83e4f08cd8da3f4a527633ae7e93e0a47f4d885
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm directing to numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, consistent with a phishing lure or a downloader.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://bjyhyy.cn/filespath/files/20210908082454.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lv573molrs7o3d7dotqm31jaj4/favitapujonowebeforuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isagenixmakessense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mifanizedonutosuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sictombbi.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53467513517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kperrylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/meladup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnmarzillier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nezesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruihuitax.com/files/file/52878105092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preiss.at/upload_files/files/41187663013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96eb30545bd51477bacf7f23cd04042e/91124617355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loffoxfitness.mvwebsolution.com/userfiles/files/gumusixifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://express-service-auto.fr/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rumubigiligodumoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adriennemason.com/assets/files/92832367364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbjnews.com/data/cheditor/0603/files/86585521826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okfilm.kr/userData/board/file/84012582244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b2ce39aa8f---19031019905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--hjrnskadeakademien-mtb.se/userfiles/file/bipowukawexezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosiriosrl.it/userfiles/files/254582592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semut73.com/contents/files/vupenak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://albawadiroad.com/userfiles/files/fenegobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiecarriere.it/uploads/file/21572277943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://niboparis.com/upload/fckeditor/file/1631135854_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farmaciabergua.com/userfiles/files/62491652032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessvaluationapp.com/fck_files/file/62697341104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citytrafik.nu/images/file/jikaxabate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northwestconvention.cz/data/files/vafitixuguxabene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=the+easiest+deathrun+in+fortnitePDF 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_off0000ddc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDC8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5DF 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 3f7fcc8a3c48538a580f2fd01736fd4d1999c5011c5ce01593daa6253e27d208
font_02_sfnt_off00010d9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D9A 17188 bytes
SHA-256: cfccfa957a1d680676c0611f2f3ff4f4e50aebfad7e954633f4e4c8baa0a26dc