Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abc5cc49b3522079…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-02 17:18:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a163c31f29314595cb49146ebf802abb SHA-1: 3a4e3f488799253dbd77731127e668194660f51c SHA-256: abc5cc49b3522079ba11c410afc911c22b859abc4058b499262f92d0fd1b5fac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vidmate+app+for+music+download PDF link annotation
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85k81lf2u0nfh2hm695hvse69j/mipelefifulepoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietnam-intraco.com/webroot/img/files/20925786963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01dac02169528c0f5bb246eb4a888d4d/sebokuwivenolokusigago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ac21427c8---73123423103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5aa8cda0f28ee269942c003ff81ddb7e/vusotekulapewatigefomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acd78d6d96e---tabiwufolajumoxoreneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e64154fe0---mulagejowerixosepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deborahbrown.us/clients/860103/File/63243920652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/711316544b062738a92cbb2e71ebbb4f/14059081990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/127b9da7758030b533a4827767b7a3ca/gokajebalimaxanivuforu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e758eca7222d5d26874525db9bf74764/vapolikenifanisineja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160742dd4394bd---68875302366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa1908e50af---pufuzikomaxareko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f692ea86e25996625f5a87d7d59ee56/suxagogelubapoletatijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/29454816662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d033233b2f---sisajogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airelimpio.mx/img/editor/file/3741834287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystal-lamp.ru/uploads/files/36139177170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firanywiktoria.pl/uploads/editor/file/86456571236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massarentearchitettura.com/userfiles/files/79162728958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lgh495u2h1f14gqta4e831avvs/50135562491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jngf.cn/files/file/degivejikodijuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daearesort.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210629_02AAAE029080E6D5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thrifty-uy.com/files/others/tufalodanoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de974c82185---78617632903.pdfIn 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://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_off0000f05b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF05B 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 03aa9653aa41f07784b9e173ad24249e56796521a6c06cf497cb8545b21e1729
font_01_sfnt_off000109be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109BE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000121d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121D0 17272 bytes
SHA-256: 5d53f52ff3b3decacbafab1a69007c8265c9ec755635d9ead396110dfaac902e