Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab54c4991790b61e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-07 12:35:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8b65fb200775a3c961709e260c6a4aaf SHA-1: b57391a2a9a257c2590b650bc1ecc42bc09dbb0d SHA-256: ab54c4991790b61e9933b28fa74283b0e6485b0611fae8d5f88e1676b67ad78c
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or trojan distribution. Numerous heuristics indicate the presence of link farms pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757fbceaf83---diveb.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf6ejanf26iu1s426ab3e3hbl0/vemukatiponujupumepes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homenet-spb.ru/userfiles/file/5990823070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0ea66897785a26602060b6563ddf8b2/meralogebepozekamisutil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/17346323124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekotop.eu/userfiles/file/ravotojebuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cairparavel.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/pigasupopavof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30f8cd979eb80920ca295966083adc28/benedesixiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68s5sdtn7o9hjetsfri4gqf4c6/93547816297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petra-dario.info/upload/datoteke/67972692276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4bc10adf45---pulamukowedebilib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otartufo.com/ckfinder/tartufofiles/files/23914936803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forglass.sk/userfiles/file/30081369687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agenbenangbandung.net/file/75359267613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d8c707e60843529a15afb71a3389463/98378395703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/41433298770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinarioscapindandrea.it/userfiles/files/25710015136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a24b7b93e61---19879518877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/34413674159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c518bb3d6---fokakiwavedabamumilime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a59c322d87cf99c553175c559d5e70e5/tijunegofonuman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4180180b0928ae62364fe754af969a3/kuginikus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/83591552016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4a9d7b7465fc79cb353576fd624e414/10766855656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=pst+converted+to+cstPDF 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_off0000ed78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED78 10132 bytes
SHA-256: 6042993ae9de3981816d7cdc1f6280b3b9761079959f319ec884b4845f8920b3
font_01_sfnt_off00010447.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10447 17264 bytes
SHA-256: 6653426c56f7767aac73ade2c1016f88b5fc57b29e3d01187957b024822c70d5
font_02_sfnt_off000130ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1