Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ab0b5441f85d7f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-09 04:32:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: df523157a5a54d07fb535b7d44be63a7 SHA-1: 9083784d793e5797a2f20a1eb502f3a35b060bbf SHA-256: 2ab0b5441f85d7f1f93a8324053e8b6ccc76ffda5ed4d5eadcf203a0b1965e13
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to external websites that host other PDF files. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm, with some links pointing to compromised CMS uploads. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these linked resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://www.agencesramos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/magekatow.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fzsvybbs.at/userfiles/file/74886711889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lunaleo.pl/userfiles/file/59993825634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntschoolint.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/14453970473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rakkhunnursinghome.com/user_img/files/84680621306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://controlsystemco.com/cache/fck_files/file/17393395286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sporyolu.com/resimler/files/46657844210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psoealora.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nutipob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ebc863b5ff---85839412539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thunderesp.com/ckfinder/ckfinder.htmlfiles/32316042118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613000e5b1c85---53968694343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyqueen.it/userfiles/files/wafinelalokifezini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/dodekeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkjz.cn/upload/files/2021/09/202109070309173348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sitarofindiamd.com/userfiles/file/86664895885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebonit.light.bg/includes/libs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wofosiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fijiembajak.com/uploads/ck_uploads/files/xubefijokakixalujusaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bantinnhadat.com/users/files/63554401035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161329b9a94bf8---zuvolapivojesudumizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://form4concrete.ru/pics/cont/file/vapozebepakexiwunakoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superlitefan.com/uploads/files/34690381059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepducphat.com/upload/files/41212416109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cimkezes.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zabuxilegetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=rooting+app+for+android+phonePDF 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_off0000ed1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED1F 17192 bytes
SHA-256: eabca85c14e94eac0ee182b5991914ac6cf6ca44fab2a291cf9299a7c84307b8
font_01_sfnt_off0001199b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1199B 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 3315ec3781ee9e3c40b7090642836efdeaa50dfe3b73af64893acb83c860510b
font_02_sfnt_off00013197.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13197 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1