Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 affe00f928d63c42…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-06-25 22:06:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: fe7d07405fcd136b370a6b0dfb62dba1 SHA-1: 28cb3a0a777cbf1d6e64665fb1d0e6cd33da20a0 SHA-256: affe00f928d63c4260505d05662c586928fe4324788c18d7b180d62da9fdea25
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=manual+accounting+system+advantages+and+disadvantages PDF link annotation
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c7f9c5eeb8031f742a7e14ecbb613b3/lemuloxebon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absolut-fit-and-dance.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d2rf152nteatsprtegm8gumvi/vixuzolirid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09d5f2ff989f594934ab565a1025046f/tagisozerufetalerur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-venise.com/italie_documents/files/sowinakanajaxewevagir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/datok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/livaramamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dfb6642873---tuludiwuges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd6d3014782---wefodawapetekukoleso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab4e7bbe696a18ec51ea950d30aa091b/87840103800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budoprojekt.eu/obrazy/file/surulininufetofovikufelot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/130e3e453ef2f47820e9cf2edc5e2ae2/29567517164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d0bce5fe6---12169355066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/40241954828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a48d93942---salewipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9fb885a25b---73758111444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a7f9e21c59---23583045769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aranykoronakft.hu/userfiles/file/xipesimerareladi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creative-format.com/upload/editor/files/84495883735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dedf1cb525e12a32703c84757a1ef6e2/buwibifuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741c6dcf4ba---13435055741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8a9150930e---gutiwifoban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/scg6v33hdfi6u8vl2laroun8k3/75991723808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajhansnursery.com/userfiles/file/zaxasutuxubijan.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_off0000d4b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4B7 15544 bytes
SHA-256: 088249f72206815a882b9af86eab253a7957756e9415064a4d0aab586eb5fb8e
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC68 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001147f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1147F 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 9966d3542fefa953753999826b5519abbdde93e6a2a5df41f2f9f21781586047