Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8abafcd568ccc05e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 07:00:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5cf352d6e4bae0fd77ca1cd15b9114fc SHA-1: ee7c0c2d65e70cf7449f568084cc2a6354c00a6f SHA-256: 8abafcd568ccc05e81887f0e9adaa83cf34f27d05fdf4227465a97381ada071a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports this, although no scripts were extracted to detail specific execution methods.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://petgears.com/app/webroot/files/file/tukalaketabekazegot.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sahamit.net/userfiles/file/basen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e42d48d68---5051273734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3ba7fd83f5---tasisuragelelofijasanejog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41d1c8cca36a00f65d556b69adaae7cc/30059968056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharasuwanee.com/sites/default/files/file/keterelilaritamivigipetet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c3feac5b2---60344036325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmxn.com/userfiles/file/20210802235003_u0pcd0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/2361016404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dramayaramendes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a96c2488e---91673080368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noahsmarinesurveyors.ca/userfiles/file/tolot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tzoetemondje.be/uploads/files/dadiminate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca6623c0f44d01d9a4038ea0fc9bd61f/24563606928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ecaadbd4951---46953178321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aafd4277396---77023727457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kudamatsu.org/userfiles/file/9926472403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benhvienlaptop.biz/userfiles/file/dutizazezupufidewuwigaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makeswebsites.com/clients/c/c8/c8c605999f3d8352d7bb792cf3fdb25b/File/27479354472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2-140-swe8h.xn--p1ai/files/23056208117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seashoresilverlabradors.com/clients/4/48/482fd9669fb3260065120a60ccac5e48/File/81899766330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilocom.net/webroot/img/files/koxukelubodono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joy05.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/tifiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/787c0e99bd5af3f0c61a19fc596eae81/38664583699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=nicene+creed+worksheet+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/95512287956.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_off0000cfc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFC8 10664 bytes
SHA-256: aea10956b97e7a448c8595cc1bbce59d4eb7d679d2a4e26011778877790e171c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e833.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE833 17208 bytes
SHA-256: 3dfacba807e6efad1cf02a9011bfb057daf80753c5efca5246b66e37627affdd
font_02_sfnt_off000114c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1