Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ab28bf4ad450fd4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.6 KB Created: 2021-07-31 15:57:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b0daf6d775c5b85fd922d2d0d4b7a191 SHA-1: 98a1f19da3acd5d4a7ce1b5844a5ba0ee8b902a2 SHA-256: 0ab28bf4ad450fd4f4c938d75a2d1c2f9011d7f21e51a654e87a9e21d0593119
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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 http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8cb6ea18ef---51769704135.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0a9a0db9f4---mojiwilokibixub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emilline.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kefibabibipozomuzamegirap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrsinternationalbeautypageant.com/clients/8/8c/8c0f0497d7166b07b5568c04be8084ca/File/70023531042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profipreklady.cz/www/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wipulituramifitumiraludap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjbtrh.com/files/pic/file/48110294146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lobanowscy.pl/userfiles/file/52913452832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25497522088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160893d366280a---47132655451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yakutiaprime.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/mojisibibuxobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087edf772604---35335296410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085de4557e70---tivaxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c9cc0e6ec---82031043414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/mojodopisodokikabajakove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffbd0910735d7b15bacd24682f1ef866/fijinogurebuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbamedica.org/userfiles/files/55601347851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonpetsupply.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160746b2c266b0---11985585488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/xitagusopodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bednidhitraders.com/userfiles/file/moxuxemozilitinitevima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100e9ef7e08d---kotesipatukuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac119229209---90550522753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607570dfcb933---japulimuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siposferenc.hu/html/nuvopuwuwexabizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfe8bc1c8f4---13201651568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c6cbaa2103---53053106135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=digital+marketing+course+bangla+pdfPDF 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_off000147a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147A6 11296 bytes
SHA-256: 1c525a17b099a5c3af5efacdf824ccadd2c5d193c58df82a32b51f369c3b7b8a
font_01_sfnt_off000161c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x161C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000179d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x179D3 17828 bytes
SHA-256: ec64c4069e416246acc9a9b1b4d527c4b80b169e48639b189a04127589f99d45