Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4abdcb812f3909d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-07-17 07:52:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e6cb19c4dc2d05908dc71faeadb6b89e SHA-1: 3e4f8d3c4f51ff0123d2baa435ca1045c68b5387 SHA-256: 4abdcb812f3909d1b43c605394d88eca357e872813f24f10826f85b0e819a07f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous external links indicates a likely intent to redirect the user to a malicious site, potentially for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18b5834f9dd2ea5802d45e29838e23b6/teropoxemisuruziten.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/fivaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/sawigogurozunusufof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulaikhatextile.com/userfiles/files/58130919880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weymouthhighschoolclassof62.com/clients/5/50/50fe23896e84432c97ff20d680692bb9/File/82843953763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607331980e7ab---wiliniluzoluruzofiwar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e01c4119852fefdb24aca74d7eaf7f5/99628208188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-pisanie-prac.pl/famprojekt_z_serwera/images/file/timirirabiwudim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/difoveziwawavopavuxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cbec9b6e08---70082735896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pozitron-s.ru/userfiles/file/mepexumikan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/luteveravunijatixibupimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehigh86.com/clients/13680/File/83483839694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelicanfinancialnetwork.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21684284090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codemessaging.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42903105068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/14408317589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morethancars.nl/uploads/edytor/file/soxafozomekaniwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jq1h8jpk4uiiol436auv0krl20/82339343681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slenderclub.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/menolezogum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c26120239a8---satewukevedowosevida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d87ac4b58e---zodurofow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamarchesainterita.be/lamarchesainterita/imgdb/news/files/86172987591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45a38d7fc43bafb8f782d6e076d15906/25748611468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/23716526838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kppv6ubd4j50mcrae66inqv2a3/kutajiruxefewiwalude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+many+fireball+shots+to+get+drunkPDF 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_off00010335.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10335 11324 bytes
SHA-256: 8bba3fac0153d00fe925a0a63a3cc3755b7d38ea2ee1400344909eb3fe90b6b8
font_01_sfnt_off00011d77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D77 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013589.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13589 17188 bytes
SHA-256: 502c7de7054a14e67cf8c48011fc87d55223e026516fd10fd20a5e3e59fa96c5