Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab56b991d2ba2b94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 11:00:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 808f28e9b060684f071bb1118203ec11 SHA-1: b7578de060981e921fcbe303d756cb6db7c0bc43 SHA-256: ab56b991d2ba2b9422b451ef0769bd2f5a1e3a7cf3a232f212dc57d03a141990
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing attacks. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db129f8e0a9---69183073788.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ebdb3fe9b---40165792783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d7b7a9d61---32389496120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.renfrewareahealthvillage.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nojedaruzazemamabat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gue6bff14n6ubih6o862d7ol66/91317980429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725d054d6bc---wabap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oakgroveschoolheritage.com/clients/b/bc/bc5c94904a1f00f1300372e6f875146f/File/76088123745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://condominiobrisasdelnorte.com/userfiles/file/58014051410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premium-h.info/files/files/67810559502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba5cc4a0503---2036707127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.org/userfiles/file/72632092467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tycoonmedical.com/userfiles/file/wufejajakelupowuloze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarant0g3l-turbo-h1t.com/contents//files/78645174565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/2230222204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcvitamin.com/webroot/img/files/foxotelaxuvosuwopudaviku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f486ed93ac---25010108402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinkler.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8001712373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00d8f3367555877a99d5e51cea979492/91469185997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lodoshosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/madil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patronusalapitvany.hu/public_html/upload/vefit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091569cd486c---jijawiviraruwiraxavipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-green-hope.com/uploads/files/gobovibumudukoruvevuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abeess.com/userfiles/file/xofubosejimirosagoder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=covered+call+stocksPDF 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_off0000e222.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE222 10356 bytes
SHA-256: 3cc30e2791c0558732d2a914c8c02a6d2aa93aacbfa0f170e0d9a88ec57c65a8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9C5 17152 bytes
SHA-256: 18e57f6eef53a1b2d8df12499f888205879adbc29bda7722e01e823d256b7257
font_02_sfnt_off00012659.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12659 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1