Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab8ede43f14e177b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 16:48:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 592352428d4a8c611e8c9110e0fa75d2 SHA-1: 0dce791fefb8c8cdc34e3b6b8f1877dfba5d33e6 SHA-256: ab8ede43f14e177b60f46c615a1cb9f9fec505ebfba7180a8b88ebabdd2e8aec
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://xn--or3bi2da319p.com/upload/fckeditor/file/41407938172.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bedandbreakfastchia.it/userfiles/file/buxivap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160871c0f8a5ea---29982438297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mbk-montage.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nokibanufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.educationsexuelle-ecole.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nazonitedesukosoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatbiodiesel.com/userfiles/file/41522958635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e08nfbaq5pepgpjv0jom135vsj/15741410839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_students/files/zomilozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609480a184254---30463571815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matchedtubes.de/userfiles/file/kifekor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saxonsaxtonfamilyreunion.com/clients/f/f6/f6d0431f970e0833b0867c311dafb132/File/jasutaruzudomebumum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701ce77e108---33218410559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhf-china.com/d/files/61601612788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bfba44e471---29598498697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nail-free.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/655245560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f1e816bf4---puxafoweza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6d0190671---sububunuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160981d0106b53---xegumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7dd1222ed3---fokidefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/dekokavur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5621c4cbd---18348511639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qa5kq8n59siutj8sh6gtqb3gtn/38588476240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laznia-radom.pl/userfiles/file/93110694932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vadihosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/kuderukarabewibikikixoxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=generator+maintenance+procedure+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_off0000debe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEBE 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 7af17099790058ac1736b05b13cf0a02e1d0eefbec474dd7096677625be050e0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f752.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF752 17432 bytes
SHA-256: 0204ff78de91203d2a62384ee03b354f2848236812b2c9a887a70bb9f6074845
font_02_sfnt_off0001243c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1243C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1