Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab7dd1c874227499…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 09:57:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 67295866a87442320d53c6fc8241d2e7 SHA-1: 441e0ccafab8d83bb7bfefbff5240c1721724584 SHA-256: ab7dd1c87422749902853d7ac4bc6a7aaf0f7773286a9c73b2ee8f87365f0d8c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external URIs, including one pointing to a raw IP address, and several that leverage compromised CMS upload storage. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of multiple links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/odrdst2bekhm5ev37do53pni7p/1787175629.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074825db8c92---46986155612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesnek-vysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/kudarekajokonusozulegeted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k85ekve1vmr5jm9uughs1n6e31/lobexovane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a737bcb3256---kimorosafojip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilafafafa.com/shopadmin/upload/files/moditaxozom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reitinguok.lt/userfiles/file/30503325023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a4185c018208da55043f54fefeca771/vofovevifilolebenika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db06acbe49---87015360157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://157.230.241.115/image/upload/File/48091402091.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/otjtg83d4eacvvct5qnvt5efjp/katekaxavotawuvobutej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samirkumarpaul.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fofofukaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nickelsgrafikdesign.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37469099438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lig160i3r48rm0lnnp0chorgej/bugaxitugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.plain-pied.com/editeur/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78153258641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-028.com/userfiles/file/20210805012723_bane9t.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-0898.com/userfiles/file/20210708052407_yo9a0d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nyitotthaz.hu/userfiles/files/62294276176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comtraining.cl/userfiles/files/38473663958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfe.hk/userfiles/dikumeronaduka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f1fc4d491a---23865067693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sys-svinding.dk/userfiles/file/29770466490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/gonefapara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=labour+law+malaysia+2019+pdfPDF 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_off0000d487.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD487 18160 bytes
SHA-256: 318b83b580de17f107dda9d84c511aeae825480341d38ff4c9e386bb92dd432a
font_01_sfnt_off000102eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B02 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 6abba1cfc35a02297d02790cf338833f790e5fea87aaa84c2e0e74da237d1271