Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abd169744dd390bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-07-07 11:25:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 990433cf09d15d743c56583c848fdfc8 SHA-1: cb5ca3446b6261340604341ae340671e78327ccc SHA-256: abd169744dd390bcc15617f8083718f379f47fa9a2d8b68e3eca26a79214f070
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings indicate a malicious document likely intended to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://happypalettebnb.com/CKEdit/upload/files/93619522494.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://solo-enoant.com/content/files/files/kejorewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d43b3808e61a1bf4f00ff389676a7fdf/19618888454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a216d9a3ed080b6a86f451c6f45a3598/subanapuxupaxuzisaxuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suvagcentr.ru/userfiles/files/88689045064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vbftkqsbr3qo1uo2dnf033h3g3/kobugodekegazelutewazezez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jmak75rftg8an90nr0llo0mv7h/46068026401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/puviwusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e0928c530b---wovawizigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://predit.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lefavanonekurovuxupov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slbreakingnews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vagatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feng-shuiworld.com/userfiles/file/ravigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myosiaffiliate.com/199trust/img/file/89509843644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://systematix.pl/userfiles/file/gogizugunerexej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7nqhjb8v3rdai539lb6bu7ij3c/rilef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f7cddc846c698b4eaede161a8450769/16901225291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannermaul.com/userData/board/file/tumuxipifigelukewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804ac72c5ba---pivazizet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077e2921fd99---xarepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaibooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210706_5520025BED0D7978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ujepites.hu/userfiles/files/95930459690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cargotavio.ru/files/file/jedimejoxeludefofiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovth.ch/userfiles/files/ruboxipusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=finding+strengths+and+weaknesses+in+research+articlesPDF 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_off0000f614.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF614 10684 bytes
SHA-256: ad19c056e8e2957eff1d1196999a3e83677a703d4359d7b3a1dcf2a3f92bf8ae
font_01_sfnt_off00010e53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E53 17376 bytes
SHA-256: 082e47e779e8adebd39e7d64c1d794361c3d02b2f180af9ad84d05890ddc8503
font_02_sfnt_off00013b49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B49 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1