Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab92db1dcfe91c96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

164.7 KB Created: 2021-07-14 04:03:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 28e58d6e9a692dd251d36246e24cd9c9 SHA-1: ca19cfa047fa49974e73ccb09c654d954e4644af SHA-256: ab92db1dcfe91c96394b4f4b25bf09d14831fa4a538314705162d2efd9b19bb1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9735

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://cateringkieuan.com/uploads/userfiles/file/82442821906.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e21c4f0c64---gexepugofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csn-alliance.com/data/files/49224083400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muslimofwestbengal.com/mwb/editor_upload/files/13935559385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partner-support.net/user_data/userfiles/files/54860149951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9d7915d511---47020488643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qca.ch/userfiles/file/29875532845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85bfcab75306165ef7864483b228effe/zaxemapafewegav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8013cb3b9af4952e2c7816ed008186c1/febimimaluvefusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c46ce60940c37d9e000ffa86a12c0e4f/91970466152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/62030906933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f9b680a3727b45ec04b53d6bf2e0532/59170499115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad6ac8632a3---jokalib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f0aed6ff0---49948419480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reneenicoleevents.com/clients/865995/File/kuturutikaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stardentalcare.org/userfiles/file/nodojesudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3142327db16125bd8a0a61b4cd7f926e/2591466262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-22/20210522235625245508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/os8pklbs8p790m81p7rn8sci20/27559308011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c78cfcac31---betufupik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d09dcd50a9c---xesotelelivet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nggfn03bqulk5pi33v7l5dk4e2/rawibadet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c344a282156---pofanepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b79750eab74---26291777439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093bf0b17502---fofiduvubirizonukuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078881cd9f2d---41856996782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=photosynthesis+and+biomassPDF 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_off0002222a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2222A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00023a3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23A3C 19724 bytes
SHA-256: 50d6233c19404e3595ad12e3e86ba9392348c2fee7a9842f775c301f130fdb81
font_02_sfnt_off00026cab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x26CAB 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 05a37b0e37ab583d9bdf309d812f9b11b511c22d3c6dab8ac6abc10c22045fd5