Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab37024ab4e95ae8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 15:18:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: aeefbb26f0aa57d337b179a48a1a9561 SHA-1: 0a935db20c6d738b24f07409ee738489c15448fe SHA-256: ab37024ab4e95ae8e77833a74c713fd7ea834baee90ecb55f25e6752db8deaa9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 http://kasaitogo.com/uploads/files/64774835095.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11fee05397857131445746113380c678/kegeraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0667cbd489---7853518760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apizf.org/public/file/luwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a4f7519152---mokelojufitawozaxunizavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://home-delighted.com/user_img/files/91901629411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/86057350610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miraesusan.com/ckupload/files/93191898199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d91ec600088deb5cbec7a4ae27177be1/zevegola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chiuman-hk.com/images/file/nipalafamegapevaguzoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiqi-machine.com/d/files/vikavexem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1a7355045c---sigen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/151841266431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jpms6kq87nl4qntolm3hq5dpr4/sutijolipuzaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/2021821914594712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca2b23247af---88081222196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://controlsystemco.com/cache/fck_files/file/23013813151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/fogutibezijosunuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c51590d73a5---86814727592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/kimujosido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/23571688846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbe0704cf2---82668714613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubles301.jp/files/ckeditor/files/58654031680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/fodofosejido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=critical+care+nursing+made+incredibly+easy+free+pdfPDF 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_off0000dd53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD53 17848 bytes
SHA-256: b9eae9b42a2dc85a55cd0a0dfa541481164ea00a88c031d6ea674099113ef3d2
font_01_sfnt_off00010b3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B3B 11228 bytes
SHA-256: e916aacfd011ea4ff92936fc592d66812793f1c2a8b3941365a36082af420525
font_02_sfnt_off00012523.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12523 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1