Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2abfee106d31dcb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-07-08 10:46:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a221ecdcca26aec4467f0cbe96e72969 SHA-1: fec724ad402e2d1abf015258741ba39198753bbe SHA-256: 2abfee106d31dcb46bbacef29d2d15c015da49e9be97d1cfb83f15ff47a75880
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads, likely to host further malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and the use of UTM parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the true destination and potentially leverage SEO tactics for distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927396dfbee---44191019787.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75c94eb2c93ded0cb7de20a432315833/18080968062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yocarbroker.com/upload/ckfinder/files/94678528177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzycznescyzoryki.pl/userfiles/file/wenak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l7vb26ijmmr5s25vndsmjs2ugm/zigatekamomoregipiburujis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpokebar.com/uploads/files/munopofojulemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/wejuwexovuxufudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://codecs.roimages/file/jexadadidajodano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/336b42fd882e35db1f6f17b15ca9a525/90090601994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drukarnia-skawina.pl/app/webroot/media/files/ginob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinhorelli.com/userfiles/file/jomanomenoboboliwanefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ac8870671---kigaronaxawox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/sinekel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjwqj.com/uploadfile/file///2021061711594571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aonetreks.com/uploads/file/fupozuroneralilanivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbf6c89e49ada9643eedc8fc93da4c70/tobapope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e161d9108---95533854963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/zifudepelorotepolobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2a5d0c1d1---69894092420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/22087814575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tehnicgaz.eu/files/file/30347158183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/476fea809cdc878e3bdeca73db114452/bopejaxejegof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27758417074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a0ec0203b---92226169561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5b2a579c7---69134266320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/xudewowapag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/11144873145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=mildly+low+platelet+countPDF 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_off0000f660.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF660 17276 bytes
SHA-256: 1db57eceade37ac021fb3a024907a830884bb61a8ceb63bf7199ffebb0c6cbca
font_01_sfnt_off000123bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123BB 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 29edd8f969770e2aa6317ec782f8a659e0e49cff7b0cf0b9905c36d403879fe9
font_02_sfnt_off00013be8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BE8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1