Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab0de664d324b97c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-24 04:09:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 85071e3b0f8fb4c8dee4a90b25ca27e5 SHA-1: 13452b92a6c1931d2ec8d715d8d300643bb031b4 SHA-256: ab0de664d324b97c345f3b582967fc100aa1d6f18eb206e77727522980de0ca2
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content likely attempts to trick the user into installing a browser extension or update. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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 http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ded3a56e13---24573558773.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edb11e9363b5e8cdeaff6f9a0adba2c7/ridokeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rivebistro.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74248264619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udmvdpo.ru/images/files/zawixokowemeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1609efc2760b4c35bc8a4f1043e325a/kowovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesterteto.hu/userfiles/file/65663907668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5ecfe4d9d77780a93ae01f2f77fdd71/10663352265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yasairamenbar.com/uploads/files/zenodazizanug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oancora.com/ckfinder/files/wagowusavefonageno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassung4you.de/bilder/file/51800238323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zsdbiopharm.com/upload/files/kejurufuxolur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://museodegliarazzimarsala.com/userfiles/files/zusuwimaluxikevedukadux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npas.ru/pic/file/25963428259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vagyonvedelemszolnok.hu/admin/fck_upload/file/lofilifagurajis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shesob.com/file/files/39200117602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c0d5757d2b---76819636922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udokutscher.de/gfx/userfiles/files/wejapubifuzowifokaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ogledalata.bg/uploads/pages/files/winodazubemuwoduzebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicare-darmstadt.de/bilder/UserImages/file/nexumofulexuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kovrdom.ru/sites/all/sites/default/files/file/24653131091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analhospital.net/file/files/80147376883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://productinfo.in/konadnew/userfiles/file/bizefovosipotuninedegefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://99shayari.in/userfiles/files/sutusepusomugiluwobewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fazendasaojudastadeu.net/fotosempresa/files/bigozifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://knoxvilleremembers.com/media/zogetika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=emulator+chrome+androidPDF 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_off0000e1a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1A0 10552 bytes
SHA-256: d151fc921dc1484d4b247bf822ef3898a70d8ae2145f423fcbfb9c59150d5ea0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f967.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF967 16636 bytes
SHA-256: 385263812758ee6b7019164759ca1fa7b6dd4f3a101a969b719004e1af030b5b
font_02_sfnt_off00012494.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12494 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1