Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abbc111ba672428a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-09-28 14:31:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 17a42e57403b4bc5a65a4648da39b7e8 SHA-1: ce88b468a670773c5f2c635daefbf5290dda6a8d SHA-256: abbc111ba672428a17df75c1b50e76b8308710611542104edd454352ac554033
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gta+5+online+download+on+android
    • https://bimetoor.com/basefile/bimetoorir/files/kefobavegemovopediram.pdf
    • https://kp-bs.ru/upload/files/74854153876.pdf
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7p6c581d86cd77n45uf32voo9p/45949739550.pdf
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-1/20210901054621874475.pdf
    • https://vegan-eshop.cz/data/file/kebuxowubokokoku.pdf
    • http://vln.nl/files/file/79686501585.pdf
    • http://chrisdepanneservices.com/Sites/cds/files/88798950563.pdf
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/fiwisalugifer.pdf
    • http://www.ccengis.be/applications/ckeditor/addons/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rogojavegi.pdf
    • http://kfbma.org/files/fck/file/pofikigilulikuvusisi.pdf
    • http://logenamerica.com/userfiles/file/27212951015.pdf
    • http://sonsuadogo.org/Images_upload/files/jafifokufeziv.pdf
    • https://koetec.com/home/~ptow/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuwutawigatixuwapi.pdf
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/musuzomowafovulesafid.pdf
    • http://bualuang101.com/backoffice/upload/files/16097057846.pdf
    • https://2acontractor.it/images/file/juburafa.pdf
    • http://studiocastigli.eu/userfiles/files/rasogaleraxa.pdf
    • https://seedcambodia.org/htdocs/cljr/data/files/27813354407.pdf
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c58d3e9f05---bidenikifotajujogev.pdf
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///lonesitinu.pdf
    • https://www.pessin-location.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kojotixipemomip.pdf
    • http://daegyung.kr/userfiles/file/20210927124419.pdf
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dab9fc0ca69c2273d7aa2f9fda17b681/xogitukowezogi.pdf
    • https://evpersoneli.net/ev-personeli/file/19170684004.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b259.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB259 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca70.bin
ee249ab8247c789e4a62349a54fdfbb1569abaad4da064bb5e14d6113d4c4cf9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA70 10332 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e1f6.bin
15f20771e640cbefeba486b1910180980431dce304c4b2c6b223cdaf7ebaa1df
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1F6 14512 bytes