Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8abadfe41e555486…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-08-22 12:40:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 8f4f271c7a956f79daebee5b6676f4ff SHA-1: f0efde57ec1ef1d26d60caa442c37c60c9793f69 SHA-256: 8abadfe41e5554860e7b8371837ab4dca0183c180ab0ee4d488af06871cc1b26
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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 http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f2fd1aaa2f---24813160421.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087237accf8d---2331055929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houselandia.ru/files/24606296038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d575752a6fd6b978eba7c698ad6163f9/72489514377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuovartea.eu/userfiles/files/43038558265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6946f7f27d---43923869866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rmq39pd30v1dk6v5jrqoh21os3/95968255007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triatlonbizuterie.cz/sites/default/files/file/93491855823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70c070234af9ee0a1b19b3dd0ef18b6e/8183557601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2013.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xalamosikawexukimarejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study4student.com/cache/fck_files/file/66630948939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9de5f3cd1c5cbb7ff5083ffa7cbfdc22/81664767938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160722053a1f8c---rubudili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsva.com/uploads/files/82286505769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fc8c050f7cb4218ef30501f582ff8f1/25273977096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3fb4022b77---jafoferudetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winterwonderlandzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/90958847227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/70395689328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ca32deb2f---zapakivus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edd2aa4a9bd---sobitin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa9ad096d5d700b91d714d106bf34ffe/porebusuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vorne-sitzen.eu/pcms/content/file/waxuxibelasunisos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketdoanbus.com/webroot/img/files/zinoxixorezuzesalox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.com/contents//files/86592336722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2026caaf7c---17215342819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=balanceo+de+ecuaciones+quimicas+redox+ejercicios+resueltos+pdfPDF 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_off0000fb98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB98 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000113aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113AA 18768 bytes
SHA-256: 377fa706679600cdc5458eb45b7524f28210649bc9bdeb4621c5857f616123d9
font_02_sfnt_off00014460.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14460 11312 bytes
SHA-256: 6590adff0127d0eb26fe7b81b93efc40ca849fc81a0ced69795dad2d60c5f2e6