Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab8770ba323c7644…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.6 KB Created: 2021-08-09 12:12:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 983e09c2a67435caf8be43d842d683ad SHA-1: 7ed9b9d1caafd74fac297836984acd350c278e41 SHA-256: ab8770ba323c76448aeb2b019a5066d0716c59358f2df55f7e8bb9921cb6420e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links further supports the attack pattern of redirecting users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chapter+6+chemical+quantities+review+sheet+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b93c9aabb5fcc0ed20932af9ecf604e0/gafebinevoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/bibeleviwofolafun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a44fb42ba86---93113276108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomleasing.ru/media/File/bijisizugozujabufix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ianf4lh57ac4l20ip6lckm4tt5/komazerorurelebekipoxexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://risme.vn/files/kajofarikulijet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a86fcc63327---73155575510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c61a71c485a---54666957974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d93801f797568496b3bd8e99babe52a2/pesisowudofulawitem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608012858d86e---rofixiruluvejinavowigeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bdf81ca7e2b9a5dba264df8cd545751/pijesoxagax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e53d935977---48646925322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f80ccf961a8---10651248878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eiak.org/upload/editor/files/49030350364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computerdoki.hu/user/file/wovunemesuxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/nixonalusejufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4yoga.by/pics/files/69640728160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fslawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vekefufinus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://headlinesdinerla.com/uploads/files/pogezomigujebevewuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashcruis.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3be246adbe4036996531772da37b6014/bagosarudugotafuwoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06uujh63mofdtfs336goo0bna1/kuwilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotusromeo.fr/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/65656981863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbdc.co/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54658578939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/250e48754ace6b045d86bb7b92186211/zopesiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aec12de2140---17582745026.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_off0001aaec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AAEC 21376 bytes
SHA-256: 55bd182311b59878545bdeeb9175c0d3cb9e95e57ab136ade729e8e6c1abaea3
font_01_sfnt_off0001e140.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E140 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001f957.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F957 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 76743b0efa9116e5c19b1ac0f19b683157d92844af555603bd2d0b6b4b42e43f