Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab81d2b38e7f9c95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 08:49:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 80c33af07d8e572834ca586d320b4ac4 SHA-1: 6cc893de2567ec49e7774301e70126a54b376b4f SHA-256: ab81d2b38e7f9c9515511b42f3b1411b3d4b91be1403b6940c1384ea7f07262b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm directing users to multiple external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 http://www.yt333.com/userfiles/20210714/file/1626198461.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ukrainski-rosyjski.pl/userfiles/file/lureke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64b888d26c4710363246ba5b2701bcc2/jigugebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protok.pro/upload/files/36413817562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/44204084090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyglas.com/userData/board/file/jatoveponirirobixiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapsalonindex.nl/images/uploads/90397181849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125321a3ba54---zexupubidamunaferi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/37290264509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klasykarozrywki.pl/public/images/fck/file/pafotidozuvizepejidipuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/815af25cf3bb3a5eff916c542f3a93ab/weninumesafulovag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duszek-lasu.pl/userfiles/file/rutulubesazapexadatinedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c3a76f384---tupedoxanev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dqt3aga1hl8gvoa82enb9b1cc0/gevukixunotafivuvelat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarksville.net/wysiwygfiles/file/nonabex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kokocurry.gm/userfiles/file/76337218706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elosc.com/upFile/file///ITX202108082207327820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toanthinh.vn/webroot/img/files/wekamesomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.eu/data/cms/file/2005404417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bf1cba4875a30af92ffd0c8c4c6e5c9/jakus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e0f59abb8---62110369590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosebankprimary.co.za/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85610046279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucity68.com/clients/e/ea/ea220da86df44fb0ae3b7c8e8295ccc1/File/79344322726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30eaaae46e430f8d96c7ed0cb6537273/74812970893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=different+types+of+letter+rPDF 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_off0000ec36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC36 10304 bytes
SHA-256: e34f970b0b58e1d5b57e195f0b3df823064946cf1912ebce82432998a0b0df51
font_01_sfnt_off00010391.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10391 18700 bytes
SHA-256: 95b4673897204711223fb6aff19cfdb0fae4a8a6873f5337dbaba6dafe8dab16
font_02_sfnt_off00013371.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13371 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1