Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ababebe216578ce0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-07-14 02:09:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3dd0f0d9d090131ef4aa69dc243182ca SHA-1: c99acdb6c1afee6610b6fb03eda57032bdb6cb74 SHA-256: ababebe216578ce05a4108740b417f06afe3b229e238f8bddd2f5b0d67766318
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0spvd5pro0k3vjson0v5iulm45/juxekapojej.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/16667369374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbedb5b8a60715591abdd44dbdef80eb/nugedigizoned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771a89718c4---94908195543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084dd70f3766---63624272976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795645bb33a---xipogawenuwovoreza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokobrunnen.com/idata/75319707834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160963155de61d---vimeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f227251064---84980229641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f64f630c09ac44b80c18bbb1d168e5ba/barewadorikon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guclupin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/jagazoriko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49pqj9sore1etraosvvokhjeu2/nenojawitomikaxorul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/96586686946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/mejerorifusumadunoporazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logisticsnetworks.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77665744794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/70620333507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anma.pl/anma_edytor/file/11492548662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lu5ksjfviqdll3ig3nsjobp4hb/73753348675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f473253c9e---44804193825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88982060385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienbao.net/uploads/files/xujiboxerodizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://testplanet.nl/uploads/files/gedosipifowudowes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monroehighbeachreunion.com/clients/8/88/88bd109b8fc96949fe6caf7698e88fda/File/35945990688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=angle+between+two+vectors+physicsPDF 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_off0000b6f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6F0 15292 bytes
SHA-256: db7d0095c2e970617fe5500d6dd62c1a0ca35a4df2fef7512f0cf823652fb501
font_01_sfnt_off0000de1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE1C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f633.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF633 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 12cccd045f4f5dd4a9fb826ecf178437a400e961ab574503ad946e30adcca832