Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ab84d87fe5b106b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-23 03:54:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2bc523f1b652a8cbb2a7b1ee746051e5 SHA-1: cbd80eee1fe12c12fc8211e66d8a0fde1fc4aaf2 SHA-256: 0ab84d87fe5b106b0e74a1d05a47b3392476b678ef8b6c4303c5b5afa85b1885
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories, a common technique for hosting malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests a broad distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://tinhdaurosa.com/Images_upload/files/sulofepex.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/pimojivisutofano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/52370633929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/dikegeribedopiviburab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interno-kazan.ru/upload/files/xetulubokafisefekutani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e58a00dbf67c3672980aa5d720ac0ad/1910707290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.huaikrachaohospital.go.th/assets/global/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23833271840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070c8a1ca52d---99403071843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bopodofamokureludi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a5productions.com/home/a5pro/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gujigigajofamukiwuduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argentinaproduct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zakesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flemingfamilies.org/clients/8/8a/8af36a28baf44bfc7b8a7004fb4eaede/File/toxuran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8eed6e6aa7a372098414debbe1301e90/92159761174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876ee3a3c9a---luluwam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/id1qfj30agd6h5c2inmmrq11n0/pilanowujefapaxexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba2c39c9e26---36176970832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradleyhillsapartments.com/demo/uploads/contents/file/82748051974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vbclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/714df6778b08e8788eae39645dda02f4/xabet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/npsnrfg8tm7nk1hm3l0nolublh/16439190540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ip-kamera-rendszer.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54385561949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=somali+oil+and+gasPDF link annotation
    • http://perfecturology.cafe24.com/upload/editor/imagefile/71157871507.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_off0000ed6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010586.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10586 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 15eb1edc9547ceb0d555eaba97eb1ff6ef45b579115e2a875cbdc06377f05fed
font_02_sfnt_off00011c75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C75 17248 bytes
SHA-256: 08a57c43e05a46de15179da96b75bf9e0cc703862d58733df1a5036d22bcef51