Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4abba8eb0bf9c185…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-16 12:50:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 3a40d886757284525f406c6c7e606669 SHA-1: ef3c07a714fa1536aa4b396d3f9bb184461e6c1c SHA-256: 4abba8eb0bf9c1851d53a5cd540283eb5934b2478df6e8ec516efb956649cd48
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators further supports this, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=net+vpn+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://17njl.com/userfiles/files/31910776415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuspsurgeons.com/userfiles/file/dapositejuvigulap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/faa224ee7399e87bea04d660efabc5d2/78352147166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpes-de-haute-provence.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kadipazexuxanuwizexow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanggiaphatstone.com/upload/files/dotatumofet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callmarkinvestments.fortunekenya.com/callmark/files/89299268704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/kiwutiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsi-international.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4226634114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medigroupvn.com/upload/files/3611308955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bindashnews.com/userfiles/file/tulorokubutuginofuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142ead3c558b---jodegazebeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tafgambiatours.com/userfiles/file/dudibazidozudeselimag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpsszczytno.pl/photo/file/81299489474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobspace.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/57383594610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139dbc9877ec---jowixosopixezarufolijusif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazduire-domeniu.com/UserFiles/file/24458478040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgmorenanews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fixila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workcoop.org/fckeditor/userimages/file/20210914021133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://honkakuji.jp/honkakuji/images/ckfinder/files/vinogosip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnhaihui.com/userfiles/file/20210909140427_1230401653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mengnuanua.com/app/webroot/files/files/tofitesenede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ede604ee38---90960306546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/468f7781fda624f8f2db223d30e29533/5749409501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newegys.egyseg.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18088663204.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c913.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC913 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e125.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE125 20756 bytes
SHA-256: 0f050da62d08533083f4cbe3ce7c9a7e3638d7c86d7ad0b140d8939faef67656
font_02_sfnt_off0001168a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1168A 1680 bytes
SHA-256: 6c08887b596ecb472c5a0482df8c2f828d83fc5b5d16111ed0caa1fced1b35dc
font_03_sfnt_off00011e87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E87 10280 bytes
SHA-256: 212482b376ba1c2a19cc0ead5fed963f1ba4f06f36c1e760fac5dd35c58deff4