Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab369575d54f6fde…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:16:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 94b329db4ca4bacd5cab5b361e5b3ba6 SHA-1: 86b9665f8bfd0b535d90fd4cef62c13af864df2b SHA-256: ab369575d54f6fdeb0c84a7a0df398e4b47d203c929ccabaa5f0704d8685a698
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a link farm that redirects to multiple domains, including compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 https://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=comprehension+worksheets+grade+7 PDF link annotation
    • https://rendszergazda-cegeknek.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zoxamefobusunurekupazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db8df58722---67084578883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shiraz.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dedezudagunajaniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da4149fdcdd931bcf3f2be830c3bb9c2/kijaxigepajelumitozobox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbcmedia.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lenove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinoboxingclub.com/clients/36032/File/44267297424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c57qdisd69p8r36q1lgubgkt2s/xutaziwaguvemowiwejapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetraeng.it/userfiles/files/puzike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anshan56.cn/userfiles/file/16307814261034693775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hussco-steel.com/husscofiles/files/ripagutigojavurejaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bedf72ec247---86047310728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb42e830b22cd5d77d7cfa72fc4712bf/66729579855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buddhavehicle.com/userfiles/file/49304547093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbb50daed5---404025006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3cee055de711a3abbb114da6ba48cba/rekutojabufukuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sailstudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/negabudezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.playitdirect.ca/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/zotadizigunowagegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://temple.mo/userfiles/file/gedulumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ae57b8202---vinagalebekawijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirpub.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kujurivametiregulusuxo.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_off0000dbd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBD6 11052 bytes
SHA-256: ae9de6e9d5980af76afd58e30f53c3091bfed4a446ba3396947380d5768f2405
font_01_sfnt_off0000f555.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF555 16776 bytes
SHA-256: 1818a690921f462f9e7a440b62154d0fea143c28e4446382f3a07891245fa3af
font_02_sfnt_off000120db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1