Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab3db280cec275cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-07-01 10:09:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f1390b27e1b13fffd380ff2b7a53b180 SHA-1: b4d7b924b0231cededb1624c889e1264f266700b SHA-256: ab3db280cec275cde095285d7e65c442bef90720cb1854927d9d824deaab8542
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is not intended for human consumption but rather to facilitate the malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1a436aefa6---gutawe.pdf
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ff0f670c2---lotinapexukoja.pdf
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ec090a1be9c87ae4a30d0ef9de45ff3/36455398488.pdf
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5b2d09c8dd---12412798071.pdf
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/fepaxat.pdf
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6hmquam5mdob7ipihekh6oeph8/56598738518.pdf
    • http://teamwork-poetschke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35148294445.pdf
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/95793744414.pdf
    • http://jjinline.org/file_upload/file/73314233049.pdf
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3lr1t14tr54fff4l71cb627u1/dupadofevaxoxuf.pdf
    • http://gyobel.itpublic/file/pibazugibutupudiju.pdf
    • http://vishwkarmaenterprises.com/webroot/img/userfiles/files/97917433855.pdf
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a624f3586a099737a6b82b51412c36a6/zexigexevemoxesofidufozun.pdf
    • https://dpt-mh.com/uploads/news/files/duxowimipiketi.pdf
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf933d423e2---zojuwobawalumoxiromupo.pdf
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/93850127255.pdf
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce24dc7fe43---kijenodokagewuvepetoxuvuw.pdf
    • https://fishuntpesca.it/file/54835714963.pdf
    • https://talaa-obour.com/webmisr/uploadwebmisr/file/68414424054.pdf
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c51128b113a---wekotaxame.pdf
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/5335095650.pdf
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c138362130---63156543778.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=dog+bitten+by+mosquito
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eef4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEF4 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001070b.bin
5e3be98026681201d42f01406f846f23542de4299a80d7af00f05b81cb92b292
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1070B 10644 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011f26.bin
6828ac4c092048abf53e692f805ea191268b8d23058e8f826ec5f2c85a6533bd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F26 16928 bytes