Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8aba71ae8167722f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-08-20 20:46:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c8f5975f100d4e767cc7711d7828528c SHA-1: 8f549afc35ccc069b1e85124f4479eea9ffadaa9 SHA-256: 8aba71ae8167722fafc87391e839d5686109e5cb247ee1b2ef4d144fe82e5b66
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates an attempt to lead users to phishing sites or download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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=ejercicios+de+sujeto+y+predicado+para+bachillerato PDF link annotation
    • https://iringmalaysia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66897988337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peiitw.com/Upload/ckeditor/files/86332055359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiehuist.com/userfiles/files/83953171064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160735f9e8d301---sasaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd29f4d94c3---85533037287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panama4d.com/contents//files/newufelizowili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608529c5c5a30---12785694445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beyondpins.com/calisma2/files/uploads/zupusavuwekul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/dutefabudilegat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alteredcompta.com/buddha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kadilif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a77b9f14650aedb3e6a4b39f558ddab6/97451381753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v7sbopnfdjvcfc0ur385jfhfvr/kanubin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.com/slicice/file/82515853388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-0411.com/userfiles/file/20210630082257_ss68sv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nozuzeduxowibewawepuvus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7f5bd5671ddf902d36b9d2475616858/19871709922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078bfbd6ce99---bijiter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ce3b4446ac4cadfdaf69a5926417162/pifamuboti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6d8283ec9a---70888369836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gagiongvitgiong.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57216739497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bupt2c7r545jqbeuhdmc0mubo5/doziwufakunavokaminosebim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinajessie.com/seadata/data/uploads/img/file/16287852307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimecostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/58957142646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/sezezodumonuridomusatoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlataraburmevuckovic.com/files/40751060575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sintaxisfacil.blogspot.com.esIn 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_off0000c08c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC08C 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 96e55ceb7590f5f4270f6d1e0e0da6b872612c4e970f40c2714a26a72dbd6ff8
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1FD 16368 bytes
SHA-256: f89b1a092f274c51671417d85568731b0b369767e2ca084faf878696249ec18f