Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab886b4b4c2d04a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:54:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5eef0b06eb30ae8eec25cb49683f21b1 SHA-1: da9cb8a1c3d8684a9d0364de9b6d45020820a7ab SHA-256: ab886b4b4c2d04a7327505785dc086e9f32b8305bcacc765ae043c4a21edb199
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kanda+sashti+kavasam+meaning+in+tamil+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7200d7b280---60137103155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interior-mark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83125472302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/guloteketodotetuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santechnikosdarbai.lt/images/files/47286491753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u049dg8apk3b5nevjnbtrtv8ef/tawikaditozebasizivuliril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gymostrov.org/gymostrov/userfiles/file/72247676257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mateuszkucharski.pl/admin/file/26197409950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventmetal.ru/userfiles/files/gufetexoronudajavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veterinarycarefoundation.org/userfiles/file/10033715573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fda0c5bec1e8de40e3ae6835231cf43/badifudakojokuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4fa0bf6c51e128f7cb7ab6a9c633c77/35508056687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/55714418114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c1da4ef0ed094d368e2f181c6fe7a80/12195417572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/jodibaxuvizoxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preiss.at/upload_files/files/93209193194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076babbb39c1---tixekiponexejesenibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/govobovifolam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icmasistemas.com/userfiles/files/88071819645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd96fd2f051867d79201872c6172e176/94867641472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanmusicfestival.com/userfiles/file/62014270173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8debd7326859afe5c1d72564b597cc57/32886650713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaytonfa.com/upload/files/51339043419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f48bd73ac19---10079521045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamtomchabahai.com/uploads/files/files/kugileposakevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d3eebe7f72---3373813932.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_off0000fd95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD95 17960 bytes
SHA-256: cb37ea2cc3911b35efbe3d579e550467b7765fdf759f6949e45e6144822061c0
font_01_sfnt_off00012ba3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BA3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000143ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143BA 10876 bytes
SHA-256: c2d57d1794ae494dbd0e8bc924a0c8ad89a017d1b270779b6ba558401291d871