Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aba3e2c5c9c9ee6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:12:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 79a2bdd023468a74b630fdecb443c292 SHA-1: 6a060d8a242c267c5a97ab3bae2549c0b0a068a6 SHA-256: aba3e2c5c9c9ee6aba5a620dcb8743af1ed5bd1b36e86c77d3ebb033e953aeee
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 a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which are likely used to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. The presence of link farms on disposable or compromised hosting further supports a malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd757845d8---70290062649.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769e1f0c570---kolujovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sofjl9un6bgp3r85tt1btfcecm/49334631987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transporteslaplata.com/imagenes_web/file/920296120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzebrno.cz/userfiles/file/xelojawizuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoscan.it/userfiles/files/87716516523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210803180114_z5dnpd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iorto5f3iialoantncjdolp1e5/xudadaxuzunidesijolixupid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumtinathholidays.com/admin/uploadfiles/file/watanametawixewigiwokexof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funbugs.ie/files/file/62895377439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woods-china.cn/ci2/userfiles/files/20210829190736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/zazexafigetaweneduxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safeabortionnepal.com/userfiles/file/gufujadiwizejifakav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fittbike.hu/files/file/dotidef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reelproductionshd.com/userfiles/file/tewagekosoburidos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701e0d707b4---taduvifiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/72375555098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3adc032754b01943c03996d49bec4060/12092740902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apz-arte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/toworatiriwowosovaduduze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gk244ljdtcuenotqksdfcjghh7/nulevipimipavadewawufemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canoeing.by/pics/files/labefasoxegoxuxibixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staropolski.net/Upload/file/sosemupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranhdaquyhn.com/uploads/news_file/42167017591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beamstraffic.ae/amb/userfiles/file/10898331506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832e7570e72---guzumapomusilowafujivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=kemet+board+game+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_off0000dd0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD0E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f520.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF520 18284 bytes
SHA-256: 33e43bd1fa0c444dcf07e2d7cbcc408fc4f7249213b01cd56c9eb36a4f98a50c
font_02_sfnt_off00012429.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12429 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 1c36533ca56ff785289a693c1929a515329fc736bc3ccc3ed3f86baf901f6ae5