Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ab6882d0ed9dfdd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:53:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 225272a89e50c9d9db0e33bd4413fb6b SHA-1: b388a3dd68e35c5673db7fef68ab113fdebaa194 SHA-256: 1ab6882d0ed9dfddacd3e6cbae98ce1fe68102d03e3f3e42f9e1ffc859d17f63
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or are part of a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. Heuristics indicate these links are used for phishing and potentially malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the ML classifier's high confidence suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://sherwoodchambergolf.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42020099768.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f05bfbaf45---72897296606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/kusigiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestrecycledautoparts.net/images_i/file/diwuxomizetiwasirazegupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e4136cc1dbd66bfaa7c2e485c1b9560/47501097698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/935ad0837dc255d524d9517939fa6caf/zolozolevemed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matsusushionline.com/uploads/files/71309905094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gamylai.vn/uploads/files/wedotavabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobre-jaja.com/Upload/file/7209254502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jngf.cn/files/file/sedunulamute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekmaker.com/upload/files/73391208099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bclgrouptt.com/userfiles/file/likimofesukazowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luluscafeonline.com/uploads/files/44039164260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tumwebthailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fitanoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccarmaramures.ro/userfiles/file/kelab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f19f20f79a725a3ae91722dacc22f7ba/lulusororu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/958e0a42852cebd6ef54e95ab3b44942/6346621690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starringthestricklers.com/clients/2/2b/2b6f34f03d9ccbd43d04a050b3ab825e/File/tamorexuvivizusadibifeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4506b14437---76827600978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161007be0befee---pezegujefadojobepizavixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/xezuwaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cdb0b09790---fobuwiradozenobuvefomet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bpsstudio.hu/uploads/jedafoweroligarapev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1rb6kvcatead7eeo11mmckimdc/tokom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/puguvagidote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=greetings+worksheets+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_off000115d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012dea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DEA 19292 bytes
SHA-256: 18746dfdffc1b6f22b21b75798f3175cc89178d2e367064560756c97fd09a7c5
font_02_sfnt_off00016005.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16005 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 13df222f5d63cb2178575582e64f1d44c960de8df1f7a7d0c815d89d4f805867