Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab9fd9fe9e58aa71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-09-21 01:12:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a0d679628df9fc7a9a520654558bbc2e SHA-1: f62707b66892020472df3c1f91c2a34d4148d0a9 SHA-256: ab9fd9fe9e58aa71ac42e6bb5b4affe85020d03a6c1d280682e87f1e7440e408
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are associated with link farms and compromised WordPress uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful content.

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=subway+princess+runner+temple+run+android PDF link annotation
    • http://hidramaco.com/files/files/47138782118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adfaveo.com/image/files/20210918_174449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akademia-jedenastka.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/99041983203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synagoge-stommeln.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tenajuxamulariparak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisaarkin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/13278964861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saigonradio.com/userfiles/file/50489100697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.net/upfiles/file/bolireginuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamedunyasi.com/calisma2/files/uploads/sidusodusikufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscreen.in/cmsfiles/file/92836424850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b84619c5c5---44237216827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147c0966a36f---bixarexomokifuxopafipem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ef9b94d6d7---diwisavuteva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroykap.com/application/views/stroykap/userfiles/file/bokifipenoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecole.ru/text/images/file/93749989788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bancodevida.com/bancodevida/admin/images/image/file/35858001406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equalland.com/uploads/File/fibanuvifunegajofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orchid-daikanyama.com/userfiles/file/fofopowomasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratosatu.com/contents/files/jibupetujojomatosunefase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nena-artspace.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pevelafiwojep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/laluwowarusegewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alumcity.ru/userfiles/file/57337983167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongyuanxa.com/v15/Upload/file/2021921556517676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handlpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/54013734297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--82cac8d3ajrc0gd0bo4a7nf3qg.com/userfiles/files/sojifomopebipiwemuzo.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_off0000c600.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC600 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000de17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE17 11192 bytes
SHA-256: f2e6607488a72d93407e4c58e82e802a5355bac1c45b8028f939251e71624bc9
font_02_sfnt_off0000f80d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF80D 16576 bytes
SHA-256: 5c4c683e1531c92e4898188768b8e1f807117a3bf17ef32f8115a18d4faa2035