Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab9748ba8f1039bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 07:00:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e1787681f4249d0b499cae35e9aa31e3 SHA-1: 97e394ce65a39036933969ad4292283e657a8765 SHA-256: ab9748ba8f1039bfbc5830cb1510954195ea56f207b88e68eb9e0dff32111f98
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=triangular+prism+surface+area+worksheets+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/36494533598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df97a2d4ab---29284617213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-aqua.fr/ressource/site-image/files/7247283183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbcnepal.com/images/file/93102016656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/871de29f1a6837d2e75e9b4bfa045ebf/liridugenivoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://familienbilstrup.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nojefesixobigodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cec-intl.ru/app/webroot/files/file/79277038936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://6nergy.fr/6nergy/sites/default/user/file/28333408961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4e8380025a---43222900781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insolite.lu/img/userfiles/files/fikeratix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c83aba127a---ripibut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/53969646760f438ad9c672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olgunbey.com/upload/ckfinder/files/fumozobifinoxidibutag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuh-tarng.com/userfiles/file/65688030445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dbc627c25a---rajugipowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazraeir.com/images/upload/files/difakujidedudabafezelalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/vaxekowikozasulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubsecurite.fr/webroot/upload/files/76551240205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanedantoptan.com/upload/files/209414724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/pesonejofeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb719ed2743---60079281265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c475717c069---fevemodal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psiakocky-potisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65191423239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e03ac17381c---tazudizunite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shreyaghoshal.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/pawusurusudume.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_off0000c49e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC49E 11308 bytes
SHA-256: 044b57b122e6ac3776b406ecc932e5a7282395b049953fbb025d35dda95a2828
font_01_sfnt_off0000dee4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEE4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6F6 18772 bytes
SHA-256: 1d06b4503bdde8f662fdc022baccd15c32c7081245ae7f86b36ab65af399a4cc