Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab1534a45e5907de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.5 KB Created: 2021-08-14 04:45:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 62dfe4dcc657790c053926064c1216e4 SHA-1: d2bac51620ab8ef34aa90682579015b47d259833 SHA-256: ab1534a45e5907def1b6611e78629f03be44d3352130315b8a18d6e744e1f5c4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL distribution are characteristic of a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

Heuristics 6

  • 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 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://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/94169177396.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/xiwitiditudop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2othc48shm64rg098b81j60jg0/13966841902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4601cf9480bbe3da95871219288fb933/zusapuwukonipezexuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4vprb2hjaqv21dt6aqi1ls1uet/88340313582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/14840952716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samtekelektrik.com/files/jekipisalimizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff10a84b5774a5903d2d012a7c82d044/64300828835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c0c2f5d104107b10aa92f91043a26a7/92453845213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6d140a515---lukigotawinafimorep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49dd1f0f4f81c02ab69b8b041480b752/6639640545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweepinstyle.com/userfiles/file/55697178524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comfort8889.com/upload/files/50634642537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efc14fb65ae548b44c1ea569a2a25655/72752756477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tn2ae4b23irf76ijrm8o5bvi5h/gikege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0b000605215e9ae7950f83c18e8cdff/fugapupalowupuwugosawik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f5d83ef2fcafee644b9facc40aa8cb4/53365853738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/40224324106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c116662ad1f---16404484805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cerathai.com/image/upload/File/35837582559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd7d8742359---vuxatorivuluma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=link+summoning+explainedPDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010a66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A66 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 01bd8c1f0aeb6838c17ee396eea47b5a1d8706c8545cff743a0d544d39b62038
font_01_sfnt_off000122f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122F0 4372 bytes
SHA-256: 31e291c1801961dcf2e06540c5f20da6a934dd5732f0e60ba11507800bf2e3d5
font_02_sfnt_off00013396.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13396 16132 bytes
SHA-256: eb83fb48a2f60ac59fad768156047f025764cad4052c8f34695a9c8dd2456ad8
font_03_sfnt_off00014903.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14903 17616 bytes
SHA-256: 6fdb43cca2bc91af55bcbb11a95c82b720dfef9ba95b69e9b131449f70a48125
font_04_sfnt_off000176e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x176E1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1