Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab09018e7080cd0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 18:03:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e75c37a13912113c12fd1402da32c581 SHA-1: f83f98b079066c9381459c9a2d6c554adc337747 SHA-256: ab09018e7080cd0bcfc14eaf5f5f64720fd1f31da30845892f7572c72078e73c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The presence of embedded JavaScript and a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this assessment. The ML classifier also flagged the PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/37363223787.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alirezamirmohammadi.com/images/upload/files/87934858780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copab.tn/216mag.svn/uploads/files/vovokimibozaboxazulit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariailmarzocco.it/userfiles/files/98465451692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediasingrid.com/js/new/fckeditor/userfiles/file/99174873290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mujuerp.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/20210530011149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henri-ruch.ch/doc_pub/file/87261549533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bazab.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xetipalapog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colleges-in-tamilnadu.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/18429043918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca46e4b7ef2d3eaab1eab8a5f8ef1c75/vuxoperibubimiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatanggiabao.com/images/uploads/files/15830361097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6up4vs40o11a0a89he6ckfpn4l/42039950128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epoptavky.com/is/images/FCKeditor/File/tojafuzaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puzynowska-kancelaria.com/userfiles/file/64618747461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaccugiare24h.com/uploads/userfiles/file/78797329349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toonesk.com/upload/pamuzeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altiro.nl/home/tjerk/file/21899869016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c071d98ced7---25324327491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jun-travel.com/userfiles/file/86502799357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/16785049417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b01e6d5d73ec9a999e8f863187ae451/lorawevexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonio-pelella.eu/userfiles/files/27966659902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autodilykanka.cz/cmsimple/images/file/mederokovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=solids+liquids+and+gases+ks3+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000c2c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2C8 17968 bytes
SHA-256: 40efb4c6f70fbd070d8ed2c377bcaba1b223ec8c017bbf952d95d2f268093d69
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000108dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108DC 11200 bytes
SHA-256: abe15558bdb2aff94040e0b8e7d11cb4279f33fa08685184ebd36298c86e88c5