Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab41a914728b9600…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.4 KB Created: 2021-08-07 11:02:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c9e6985c91cbe05c2daae46f3694c5f8 SHA-1: 8276ff3ec8a3f4b81cd8ec77292b542b7c02f36f SHA-256: ab41a914728b96009caae08a87b1f11201c9d3d95e2c9aff8d2b8a9faba461f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites that appear to be compromised or disposable, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9918

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://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qr1qc8e088apnhn30bahh004q3/suzevevojugapu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://halaljones.com/uploads/files/9968305456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-23/20210523022436798164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytalk7.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/11984835029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e3f88aeda---6441079635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075fa19f2029---nesevemifatezebora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af94db83d9b---puvazifutibuzape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobardinisrl.com/userfiles/files/47249235086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbf170548af5cd107363240c2cf9e63f/gojafixawaros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607be80e85408---89150205480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815185e1078---talojux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e19930aaf72---2579800390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45e29003cbbc0e953a7d31437d8b1c56/8154244453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italiancousins.net/clients/5/54/54f3d33123424807706abe9154268524/File/kilulasuvomegerokexanejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ps-chiptuning.hu/userfiles/files/71842385171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inannamsao.com/uploads/files/kijiduworoxagufuregilop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tourgardan.com/basefile/tourgardancom/files/17138502451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liyangah.com/Upload/file/46227303754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksx.top/images/userfiles/file/lazal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fisioterapiasuzzara.it/userfiles/files/tunovobiwekaduwirobafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd4d7e30c0df25c58c84dece3ee2b1c3/11480595397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/pudaraxipafexuzinizavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientushinko.com/images/file/18206242283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifemartrealestateconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kdihn59cecpuqtbm1kro3kn0e6/madiropumoxojafedupenexam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=answer+sheet+toeic+2017+pdf+downloadPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ff7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF7D 11128 bytes
SHA-256: a92f4d760905d3a16fda2e810f73563f944772dcb74f3a9273211a61f68bcacc
font_01_sfnt_off0001199c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1199C 26660 bytes
SHA-256: aa1a1eb117c65c452c86bb302cd82f32b4df399729847931af147f5c72f0a373
font_02_sfnt_off0001584d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1584D 2072 bytes
SHA-256: 2e4fcd3508a4eb82cf12a08279e57077ac4ad1fa2a7508f5c90a01018f696ed7
font_03_sfnt_off000161b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x161B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1