Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab70bd846f0f8019…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-27 22:33:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2f05e420136a85ad3007ff53a99cd37a SHA-1: 8d02a58bb4e1c2fe72870114b1b8881d35f34ad5 SHA-256: ab70bd846f0f801986d1ffc09ef4af1d3af319943a905612ccc81655f4879e7a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall detection indicate an attempt to trick users into visiting potentially harmful sites, likely for credential harvesting or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

Heuristics 6

  • 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 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=steam+wallet+free+codes+2021
    • https://pchome.uzai.ca/upload/files/maluna.pdf
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8rndbe2shvdh2qbkq6qlfobn00/3548795040.pdf
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16141d6b4bc6c7---xavafizikojo.pdf
    • http://prasongp.com/file_media/file_image/file/wapubamugugibesososusi.pdf
    • https://hk-delight.com/UploadFiles/file/ranozefexijasakopivanom.pdf
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133b313db638---77862765175.pdf
    • http://hanasushipickup.com/uploads/files/vowafotodiwe.pdf
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161458b9f1ca9a---pureworiwuvewi.pdf
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lph7hjh4vq3gcqb8ak01jgbgm5/tozawa.pdf
    • http://genarchi.com/data/temp/file/4540816515.pdf
    • http://pressvaluation.net/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/userfiles/file/zidixolosorifokuta.pdf
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161404825dead7---merozuzodiwa.pdf
    • https://www.studiorosaliabusco.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/liwitoromupit.pdf
    • https://abisspaandboutique.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/93613936419.pdf
    • http://gamboeng.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/javow.pdf
    • https://izyskately.ru/foto/ck/files/35087687254.pdf
    • http://www.veslovani-vsb.cz/soubory/file/fikenuwolu.pdf
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143c9844de4a---90065575939.pdf
    • http://lejuriste.ru/files/file/dodebawetixe.pdf
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaaa720fd40dfc9fb23502a348676f68/waravufaninevom.pdf
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021090320454732.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b175.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB175 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c987.bin
e33f249040d8e9551775249e64def3d3c3b31233912cae569d823a30ef64e36a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC987 14628 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ede4.bin
4b396a3a311fb27654cc60c9e4a1cd64e7691f98c0d93cdcde268deb19e76e05
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDE4 10896 bytes