Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab5ad155894dbb37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-10-07 04:22:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 0e46a7abdd9aa93cdea0c7d5e3b5b726 SHA-1: 9b6df8a2e9c76fcdd11d237effa97f4a2d0e4f4d SHA-256: ab5ad155894dbb37241e805b9f5907ec02826cd815d694b3280c5be47573e8b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links suggests the document is designed to facilitate phishing or SEO poisoning attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=thermoplastic+linear+polymer PDF link annotation
    • http://terezszilvia.com/images/uploaded/file/14491846314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161438f248b21f---14956966899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xz-brand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73438304226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ormansagszive.hu/upload/file/59611207997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pradakshinam.com/fck_uploads/file/3935629168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisoseminatrici.it/userfiles/files/33367287103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elfuklid.cz/foto/Image/file/28277395988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caribemed.com/userfiles/file/40446850924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritran.vn/uploads/news_file/juzilanabutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.seblocation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mofebibuzofaxunebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stollerco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/nodobirizugukijijifoluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superpart.com/files/lipidokar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/7925797193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faktxeber.ru/resimler/files/vibugaxalemojasuwitosifej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f84b28742e---54511535159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161342b11a045f---josurazifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sromedical.com/file_media/file_image/file/rikezijajazuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161395fce54194---58946883465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twapp.freshkon.com/upload/files/rilovilujiwofudumizovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mystruggle.uk/indigo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80889432589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topflexsports.com/uploads/vakiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/63908285830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czechdidgeridoo.com/admin/upload/file/kigabutefabaluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16159fab873414---40006397942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cs-golfclub.com/ckupload/files/vuditoleji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sfipl.in/userfiles/file/pegani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c2bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2BD 17928 bytes
SHA-256: ec0a9f20a506ca38bf9cd9952b91539b308403bcdb4e522c5ff3a6f71189f3f5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000109e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109E5 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 9ab868b74a6f834d330441d9d11795dd0501ccfb683bf30561b6c8c9a10605b3