Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab29abbaa3470cbb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 09:46:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 066deb7d13186d8c521426c33de55006 SHA-1: a1fa947f49adc7baec0a9d682dedc0f58dfe0b4a SHA-256: ab29abbaa3470cbbe00ddb310d55b0e8f965327227e533ab81c230665da325ae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous URLs pointing to PDFs hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4567e757757a489526e70a07d2388eb/zitimunivizelikigorat.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ajarnveerapong.com/UserFiles/file/67539270651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ceb6aed10a---miduroxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.proctoloji.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839f1877da1---63817416106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/bujedagofovenofonil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7733d298a02797797e5efff4bbbe3eb/jugofer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f63d4455e7---fuzusonamusatelivaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607180f2ce255---ditim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bc1fe7b022591280265bb3e7ca1ac17/10628418341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsservice4you.de/bilder/file/peresorivuxatesovazuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/176459600060b1baa77ef5c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anakaygame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/rusepanigozug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97kchsstd0irrog53bdtgb7ib5/12828840684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/baac1a6f7e6fff9ce5a3c810928f0eab/nexezosujunokovojidikokij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiadomainstore.com/userfiles/file/10695141772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160831d287c1a1---dasolusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eldorado777.ro/upload/editor/file/vosubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9637b4955b77105b36fade840f9ded0/dexotunivebifakelapine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f9e9978e1a4f6dd0b9ad6fd35cf60c3/suwafadaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithandfriendsfamilyreunion.com/clients/d/d0/d05d9bb0b75700e7199fc64e52c62161/File/62743219168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c433ac53c55---regosobiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6fab3e052f---95804944048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4cfa58efa0---wifemolegoletabagopiwuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=hplc+stationary+phase+and+mobile+phasePDF 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_off00011556.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11556 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012d6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D6D 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 55795b1f26faa8a0d518960ce1472f3526dc30ff3addbfe31125b186b1d001f4
font_02_sfnt_off0001469f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1469F 18300 bytes
SHA-256: bcdb1912f6f57800c665244064730e2d415dc4ef88f33a3bcf5e6d8f9bcc1f61