Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 875ab0d7377dc9cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-15 12:20:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 72d31c16be81bacde9c4f23619618223 SHA-1: 7a632f915d716135f1f356fc753f312938966de0 SHA-256: 875ab0d7377dc9cf03a807492c9c4b0ed47221979caeb1e04f9b9a3374f44782
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1553.005 Security Software Tampering

The file was detected by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, and a critical heuristic flags an instruction to disable security software. The ML classifier also flagged the PDF as malicious with high confidence. These findings suggest the document is designed to bypass security measures and lure the user to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hard+app+lock PDF link annotation
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140b90cc8a25---35648379943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chretkinia.pl/userfiles/file/66736464909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuhocxuatnhapkhau.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/62637947411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tznjl.com/userfiles/files/kisokepowepewukusaguzuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elger.cz/fckphotos/file/41560722440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5af5ae9abc1382a0af9e42c0c540638a/nojifulok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161372c13eca74---fegixakolizawibojif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahha.az/userfiles/file/9419144818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161387f0f6bc26---17780452416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitytradefze.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84832359583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ffbf748594---mepukaxubeloku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/80233628001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crediramasrl.it/public/file/75944155082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariamontecchia.com/userfiles/files/livelofazudab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lrsdev.com/userfiles/file/82433591646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapaconoticias.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/dajiwilafebunivegata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacydockandmarine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3deb5e53a2899b7a031dad9251b6af29/88336696154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gsm.company/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wabewifikobetuzexabawore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daithanhnam.com/upload/files/43035213398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thucphamchucnangmy.vn/uploads/files/66377656018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flyingwedge.com/uploads/assets/file/bujavubolakavufowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saaegfpolis.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vakemevezozogev.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_off0000da96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA96 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2AC 9996 bytes
SHA-256: bdaa9eba8226165b556d7ad9d06857c8d38f5308a1236dd4d0adeb52d4d2a1dd
font_02_sfnt_off000108d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108D7 17556 bytes
SHA-256: f1edb25e61b5ec11b8026c8f0036448ccee9bfb79663465fbf97b498f827b8be