Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abbe047bc48a0931…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-05-27 16:06:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 76c1c3c89a1bbcae76356299a4fa145b SHA-1: 24ded608a153ed4193d931053b10e4770305ae0a SHA-256: abbe047bc48a0931590c358e3f569564948ed51b461c1da55e7d4383d579560d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or SEO poisoning campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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 https://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sharp+40+easy+smart+full+hd+led+tv+lc40sa5500x PDF link annotation
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a2633e00313c057a614bf021f484231/22974284914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e87218b3a0---nutes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076bd3e2d79a---sijabugemodazibuxokoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f98449bfc11ed2b7699f2f29ae32ccbd/10509366773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/csc0pjpm865it2jhnk9p10nqfm/tabipogesofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6607d0d945---dowabimiwopegirumepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a849c93cbb---wagudekeziwoxafepenef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/lezoxifokesegotafake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaf94369392---migezomegeliwafibagexunaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebq4m6up9grg63jv0u2a2ejes7/terajunitevizoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linkingpeople.info/userfiles/file/34151811526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ead5f2a2074ef546faae99fb979d1562/22661701467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/447d534a1ec7bf79bbcb741013e9813e/lujatepowazimuxitelekotef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/depozunuzarelob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1d914f3ac4---paxiwalixorik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e7488e384d---78738474819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE1E 6084 bytes
SHA-256: 5c8f7ca7687a3c7c3deefe85c500db55af592a2d3bf7f3cf47e1a1b5c2511332
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2C3 11336 bytes
SHA-256: 5f331920ee43afdc555f00737831512cd354910414500b2359f6b7e80b722f77