Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7abdfdbda564e42f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 21:00:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6b3b29479a2ccc473a5dd03c8d62c88b SHA-1: b94a9d8ef04041329b11fb7eea695fd41c111e25 SHA-256: 7abdfdbda564e42f07550b4a5924b3c09892f244cceb8711d5f83670c0430d07
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely to host further malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm detection rules supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=world+civilizations+instructor%27s+guide+pdf
    • http://berallebags.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210522080302.pdf
    • http://1night2day.com/ckupload/files/vizaramefevudonitefug.pdf
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ee4d43a752---35427010675.pdf
    • https://anfauglir.com/images/file/gamozabuxukil.pdf
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/538df65106fca2ebd0c5e3f9e5210f98/rikobulupitag.pdf
    • https://grupahatak.pl/admin/_fck_files/file/89472225931.pdf
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/074bca3729b16996039c099348423798/29493562654.pdf
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb59edb877---77265205535.pdf
    • http://cutencuddlybreedables.com/_images/file/jawakom.pdf
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c65a865f65fe1d1afab2a3bf68c6bb9e/98904838947.pdf
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa21641ea3---ruvala.pdf
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qpjadv675bls2g843fjh5j9i61/75137126936.pdf
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fcbdc36abe5---pexujutet.pdf
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dk47eak9aunpq92rgl60b9ka80/34212332840.pdf
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8urvpqj0mitu436l2t9oq5ca5n/18153176943.pdf
    • http://connect-event.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92691402875.pdf
    • https://cafesca.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72428746473.pdf
    • http://alumnicollegedelunion.org/clients/76066/File/nuzusadivuginuloxax.pdf
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcc913d91a8---41451657802.pdf
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/47792034233.pdf
    • http://tiwtactic.com/userfiles/files/lusajejanuviwib.pdf
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df37d5c6f6ef77cc75ce0eece75f2fa2/bitajezodubere.pdf
    • http://warraichmeats.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077e2df2f0a8---27549283147.pdf
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3bb26da3e1b15b469e4c321cb9fe04d/vefizoxawokuzu.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000df37.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF37 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f74e.bin
0e291ea30a5d7f2ca7da14a626de18893820bc3014197c9339f81f7655afca53
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF74E 11048 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011107.bin
9470f9b99dc40ae22787f3e0fd116d969109a929a324cf83f49ab382327e54eb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11107 17152 bytes