Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1abbe813cca2364c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-09-26 19:19:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: bae2239c08ec86d4abfd9b7f73fb608b SHA-1: fa54d3c94b8caa5ad50f667fddba276bb92538de SHA-256: 1abbe813cca2364cd1367d087831bb167260b9987d1720a24a59fe16e883606c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the presence of numerous external links strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://ediljolli.com/userfiles/files/xedegedunapaluwure.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--c1aejbdnke.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rixawokoluxufano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tedvandergulik.nl/userimages/file/51909375151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e952ed4904fa7545483f116fd197ee1f/60254977938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myclubowners.travelenvogue.com/userfiles/files/napaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushi-belovo.ru/files/rutisanujotuparu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ags-car.60km.com/upload/files/48704384029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatdangcap.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/mirajubijagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapac.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jelidewaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/11310058986139865f72c14.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedule-plachty.cz/files/file/fasexanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecoevopublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/lanim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhcongtechtra.com/upload/files/30723546126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161503d1c890c0---18790149577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camelcarpet.org/d/files/siwotikijeregufusal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613825947a48d---rugodegebanoburijagogula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df8747451c1442a6a0cbed618c9de221/fizegavijuxiwenetukud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wirheiraten.de/images/file/zelifako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maivietnamesecotati.com/uploads/files/ladunusileganamajab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wojno-stal.pl/pliki/file/41532659130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udokutscher.de/gfx/userfiles/files/52209070130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/files/66597141279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnersdigest.org/userfiles/file/27910551419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=city+games+apkPDF 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_off0000b651.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB651 18144 bytes
SHA-256: 7357383cab3a60fa3fe80df5a7b7582a764330cd319a8eee0f19fcf26b28c318
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4F6 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 87d265282e7a096e3bf5a2cca76348b436d06e2b1c65c0fdbf20a6847374ec91
font_02_sfnt_off0000fcda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCDA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1