Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab5e4fdca04febdd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-22 22:11:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: d81e0dfb0d04cc2fbb741962fdfa3a36 SHA-1: 277960d5219cb059c47141db09232d18882e4774 SHA-256: ab5e4fdca04febddbb8d51ffbbdacddeb706a3be962c6c280543c87414ace6e5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains multiple heuristics indicating it's a link farm, with URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The presence of these link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9907

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=babbu+bains+full+movie+download PDF link annotation
    • https://temporar.mirceaseminee.ro/printuri-fi/files/zaxezerifib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qbcar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9992120032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140ce64637d7---99724093515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uceng.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/mowekifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skpizzasubs.com/uploads/files/55512647302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaa6aachkjln0qra.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zusegujifofagakatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astefin.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jukebasemunidolikinimob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tandartsindex.nl/images/uploads/84049350887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hideab.se/tc/Mediagalleri/file/4245821593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138745a40d9b---jowogoxojebadenanonupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://havilahbuilders.com/userfiles/file/2077067824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sacc-la-chaux-de-fonds.ch/fichiers/file/28717451480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145a71f693af---54280696761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediaskills.rs/files/82598617737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://musluogluotomotiv.com/upload/ckfinder/files/29919752619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saatyapi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/21954416229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krantiservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55377491387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://confidence-ist.mktechsol.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52488630318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/674522924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heimundsicherheit.de/userfiles/file/pugivapuvuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148833b6ab83---19752716320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc8afc39f077aeefd6f371e615d8111f/93318861747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psoevalledeabdalajis.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuvatemeluxofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heatexchangersolution.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-3/20210903154719763164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglatalkies.com/dynamic-images/cms/file/poforew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetfanini.eu/userfiles/files/fupadef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolitplus.ru/files/file/84166247746.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_off0000bfc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFC0 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 8683f5de3ef37f82400b0cf0390193649ff9c90ab85f6d25c1f0b90c125a50b8
font_01_sfnt_off0000d88b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD88B 16124 bytes
SHA-256: 57e9a405a1630dfe51f2dc7ef91234b5b51e274a7d4d09615f21896d2b70f0c9
font_02_sfnt_off00010242.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10242 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1