Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab1e4ae95d5f356a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-09-25 01:51:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 784f63f0f1804e0714a3242874e7ad01 SHA-1: e17220ff8ac9cf9a4a90e459663f432fa4e6422b SHA-256: ab1e4ae95d5f356ac0c2dce93ffae08987f25860b07358de97084ea7555c9ee3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tile+connect+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://cahayaapi1.com/contents/files/toborujajuzivabevokuparur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/61881481120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bennett-legal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/96685780638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161368377d1a36---25718947858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bentleyplemtech.ru/userfiles/file/68032156851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastervin.ru/files/file/33122971268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musiclivemarsala.com/userfiles/files/64697964769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e68cdc9114f06b530fbb6329420504b9/xebatutoronifoxuloweda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clove7.com/userfiles/file/buvegupesojig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://budapestpainter.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pozopanuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegastel.eu/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/92870259360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rkmaster.ru/uploads/files/birukuvirovanovavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyglas.com/userData/board/file/nobovokatebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antansconstructions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lubaromevebek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzcil.com/uploadfile/files/sefazer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxxbs.com/uploadfiles/file/a/95885375403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hmed.vn/upload/files/85459970155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://6nergy.fr/6nergy/sites/default/user/file/12189337926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oalysa.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jelilepivomeresanurerani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winhazel.com/indigo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jasinenoxaluzowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gc5jakl1231j2ubhu3s8f08ph1/mobij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zvaracskaskola.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/mudatenipo.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_off0000b1a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1A5 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 7f9870ebc43dbc9a27f45e89d31670ec4f53b06506799d2ae591723f40c87a04
font_01_sfnt_off0000c957.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC957 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e169.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE169 16832 bytes
SHA-256: 431137c46bd9ed41cc7ffce3923a450c86fbf00487ca9f7c8c2707cf7a244b46