Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83abbd8894e861ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 12:10:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: f24c7c869835a846eb5ff71e6aec3965 SHA-1: f5ab79af980c5e949929f505b67f15f2fd4ca734 SHA-256: 83abbd8894e861eac85911b86c9c07097fdeb37e7136d48041bf14979930db3f
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1553.005 Security Software Installation

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. Notably, a heuristic indicates the document contains instructions to disable security software, a common tactic in phishing and malware delivery to facilitate further compromise. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9897

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
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hbase+hadoop+tutorial+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4e6rdqmo9njtgg848gd6dmb10/32609920850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inventory-acepipe.com/images/uploads/files/10894793454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iogs77n56ru15gsuqb1p7iqc94/16614389063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatoodesign.com/userfiles/files/72839250105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/pelumofulijitijor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bacninhonline.com/webroot/img/files/fulexufibonatodutojad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/30283578343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x-site.by/upload/editor/files/15555932885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609062ad78a79---xirevetadafezudafijus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tuv0idb2d4v55ku1jra5vge7nv/57715965904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210823170325_hm5a5l.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njf724.com/basefile/janatalnajafcom/files/jozorosunegasowudosolut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bygreenpure.com/userfiles/file/wozupepumagituxukakifusab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesura.net/userfiles/file/joburusek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativitagh.com/pevron/www/img/file/kikizim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibunajcc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34099422912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877f9c0c805---tidujiwitimewomux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacyfamilyunity.com/clients/2/20/203fd950dafdada58ea32e7b96f0d147/File/81053538721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/98671388649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/idnbuoqdnk1s5h13khft10sntp/40465884870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ki83vkl3ogka9c9nuh6c1ed9a8/25438048259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-edinstvo.ru/userfiles/file/mujome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160904a2e4e346---jiruvopoxaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a341c9cd1b---63082353822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610afc8aa21a8---vimevotutuwamanure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/53534708523.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010467.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10467 19964 bytes
SHA-256: d40b2f332e765ac35f471623e845f46d35710a9e07f2f141ede2a1c67ce4deb8
font_01_sfnt_off0001381a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1381A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015031.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15031 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 7043e023640fe72047c541ea9ed365a3cb7e008079f9933397444d1862252fde