Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8abf24a9fcf4ae2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 17:46:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 25aeca288cdab1b49959167dc8df4710 SHA-1: 186615c2094d0c7e8e03a5bdbfc9d0d1803c23e2 SHA-256: a8abf24a9fcf4ae2fe153b401c4ed56280def2a03c0f4196c8d55865335c5419
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains. These links are likely used to lure victims into phishing scams or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=idle+ants+app PDF link annotation
    • http://loadcell.vn/Images_upload/files/mesuxapovuremegopezuziru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masihpt2.com/contents/files/xowakotosogelikirebega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog/file/34982689660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jfn9e416ubptt2qkb2umr95trl/mafilelamavabopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debsecond.net/UserFiles/File/lelexofuwuxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161363fd0a2e48---77605608896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lengthening-sldf.com/userfiles/file/46115612728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49f77e2ad5ea4834715e4c566341f019/seguwadavixakararimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mai-avto.ru/upload_files/file/zorasazisanoxaxijavud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungklima.net/upload/ckfinder/files/96369945429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtijsr.com/userfiles/file/detutetulilejawuponopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jandebruijn.com/uploadimages/files/42147618654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismolataggiasca.eu/userfiles/files/wifalovozunoxezudopojal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1night2day.com/ckupload/files/sipupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voijin.com/userfiles/files/bonosemed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.europesolidaire.eu/userfiles/files/bujolatadeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://top-caster.com/userfiles/file/jobatexiganubuwimojalev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ineke-ott.nl/keramiek-beelden-imagesfile/26628693754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chengzechem.com/upload/files/wudozad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunriseinnjasper.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/geliwoguzajibew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bwawarszawa.pl/upload/file/45330636941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweefvlieg.net/userfiles/file/sigaxodixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fu-xin.tw/uploads/files/202109111810527449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bravo-hk.com/userfiles/file/48510394040.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_off0000ed58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED58 10024 bytes
SHA-256: 0f67b20fdb740bf2cd506af87c152f759bc0613898cab41481199839c2ef7a45
font_01_sfnt_off000103b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011bc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BC8 18384 bytes
SHA-256: dda68e783418109f462cced18baf47525d745c556db15d31b64e59cd4e5f1d88