Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aba6f759a0d4cd44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 00:19:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b88849d7a54dd57c4cd914d40eb73d1a SHA-1: 7a0187b183096bee1d7fb7fbf77975849b3a71cb SHA-256: aba6f759a0d4cd4435920702f170c0d5f13b5c12765727a30d90fb6074c2f055
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated content rather than user-readable text.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://creteotels.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/33779193517.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://m2mus.ca/clients/b/b1/b1ca46fdb12d68e762e4a8b3318caec0/File/52808816576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a68a6253d95---48721086125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/46956216186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huntsvillepr.com/files/files/danavalinovenokomogilere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobiniauto.com/userfiles/file/niweza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecreator.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2966433225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b59a4b28f5---rumow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--sanitrprofi-p8a.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/94609884209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/so2tqah52fg546n7adqndi6d8t/47178835355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiscalonline.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/zenedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ec7c265a9bef1e4f8be49e737edb93e/15866047003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ce5797757---76229271382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumcsp.com/uploads/files/gadisuvokusavujamikegazas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/ramuvuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.net/userfiles/files/59025977521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreamwith.gni.kr/ckupload/files/826765429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16103bd8a62a14---84838940141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hophamthaibinh.com/upload/files/91690418603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artdealer.vn/upload/fckimagesfile/1e3b1fcd4d2570cac67b122d23b0e0de.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1df0615bce---98126184563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sentezetutmerkezi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/wowutikubovivununi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exteractif.fr/pictures/2/86799385805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d61f68ec911d935d503099d4e98ae81/zufukidavipesowuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=free+printable+math+worksheets+for+grade+3+geometryPDF 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_off0000d0c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8D7 11524 bytes
SHA-256: 1dcb78cd09ed8fec622152288c40d6d9a0a3d45f0e3637a5424b95d785760f4a
font_02_sfnt_off00010396.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10396 16256 bytes
SHA-256: 0aa97e6fa173f192d6f3925e670ba1eab0939f6d72a1f7e52c530435d4b671d4