Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab0756602f4e1daa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:32:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7ced2b2c21fe128970b50552882cea1d SHA-1: 7cc52e35d770e82f3f5d708c1b9edd9e8efd8501 SHA-256: ab0756602f4e1daad8c828892e5d7ae39cfaeb5e442eed630b66944d08897798
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicate a pattern of using these links for SEO manipulation or to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=plug+toolbox+for+minecraft+free+download+ios PDF link annotation
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/kupizadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/1382632174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acfd5b840330e5927113496f14387871/19851827755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vasantviharproperties.com/userfiles/file/21579816911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3e76c465fa7f4969fdac83192bfaaa5/lamagegimokesewozabuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artgraf24.pl/userfiles/file/zitetolip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/silupaxadatokavonog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netiko.ge/img/Data/file/bakirom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lebedosapartotel.com/data/yukle/files/lomawigesisutugopipaweta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongfangguohua.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55080417285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhactheducthammy.com/upload/files/rigowusegebonejowuwokal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inistor.com/ufiles/files/27395658538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netshopnepal.com/userfiles/file/23809530574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b74eb628040---wejepomuvaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06149196370d6de5acacb2228a2c4c91/vimeziwiludijitazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4tl1h9faspsm3lold9cd6c59dr/57121890366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/2455359917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reparationmobile.net/userfiles/file/lopevepetosobojusiweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visualarchive.bg/files/50229668417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ceeafbe8e45---zuwevovibumujatar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportyou.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78936088334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d48sl8vfdap4us71qrhft6h2a5/6083164436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snp-ent.com/files/fckeditor/file/40967157861179ba8749d2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkha.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/geruzuzidalapa.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_off0000e03a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE03A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f84c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF84C 17648 bytes
SHA-256: 54f49daaceacc36f4e7250d81dcca597489ab8573d5b422f43832c00fedebb39
font_02_sfnt_off000125fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125FA 11248 bytes
SHA-256: a02d6d3d08d777a1f20e7933b7b0fadf830ad621734fb12f159ce6eb1a854a24