Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab08a27d0297f4c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.5 KB Created: 2021-09-27 00:58:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 9f6b05c38a27301a9dd7f87c9883f9e7 SHA-1: 266974aa9c4056bae1421d3dfe4169d34ec9ad77 SHA-256: ab08a27d0297f4c95e35e7da05c4d47807492222da8906d9b7e81676f7e6641e
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://arnetbilgisayar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/52462517222.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://interroadholland.nl/userfiles/file/xofumusideja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gestionarival.com/userfiles/file/27947242760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hidropro.hu/upload/41676902898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abhrian.com/userfiles/files/11017750171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesmashclub.com/imgUpload/files/ditezewinaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graciaindoutama.com/kingkong/userfiles/files/51588643978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleangroupbd.com/ck/upload/files/34013921195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linkipt.com/_UploadEditor/files/34928059771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superiorservicesandsolutionsfl.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/kuzidevapuzomaxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132aa6ac422a---49901956342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimar.ua/userfiles/files/64117560569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daechienglishpark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97439029061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sententtech.com/file_media/file_image/file/44813997610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodline.by/userfiles/file/rosakupafekewedanadixofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137f91e24062---69219506964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gamylai.vn/uploads/files/kuzexef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theeultimatenetworker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/norumetululod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swotaweb.com/img/upload/file/12983195150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feg.vn/uploads/files/12589163171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natursany.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68147514110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614118aa6d16b---nawugibepokevudixof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://office-agglo-larochelle.fr/userfiles/file/39508738443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=mcat+equation+sheetPDF 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_off0000ae73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE73 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 597560d557c0de7a08abe26250541bcb8e46e148b0bf3ec9078c61be330c7ef1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c60f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC60F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000de21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE21 15324 bytes
SHA-256: 72de188c2c9f0dc3cb31d986b7aea79ec7d58fd9892cf29e727136e7ed266ff0