Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abd71abec158111d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-09-28 19:06:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: d922ce6583e9ea409f1e5a84039127c2 SHA-1: cac0f48b4a6eb924c2a4a98cec7cb96692dff088 SHA-256: abd71abec158111d9aabb294e37bd47d60245aa6ecb4b62db571b1db13e99f92
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the presence of a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, are part of a larger pattern of suspicious link distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 http://border-collie.ru/sites/default/files/file/womesi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kanoonkaraj.ir/dbmanager/filebank/htmlgallery/file///30900200480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaria-ciocirlia.ro/media/file/12536074737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makassitools.com/userfiles/file///vukowapusotimagugib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614147a158dc4---jitosapulolozabeloxalejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9eca34a0be45a45de2b8b97c46a0425/63054522486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilot-nav.socksnbows.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/surezesipomivimubalidote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59cf5010f6e473e603f0119be1e3e872/23014020284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hacoauto.vn/upload/files/43285462956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141845f6c299---73578447015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wpscrm.in/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/pisojarikota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joinvita.com/neu/userfiles/file/sanezovenejagukij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ab14542723---wuxilura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.como-grup.ro/fisiere/file/85716541536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divapharma.com/uploaded/file/58754048198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c-six.it/userfiles/files/42930949317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adesso-moosburg.de/images/file/xemaban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaccugiare24h.com/uploads/userfiles/file/91933304571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palet-school.com/files/files/94952273667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/vebawiwalikapekewaxeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedcal-wpbe.com/uploads/file/dusilanomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magyaringatlanadatbazis.hu/dev/_user/file/81479321442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdjl.com/uploadfile/file///2021091716103082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161531d01e8428---22139498886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casauthienan.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/temp/file/kisazubuturolanonixud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=como+instalar+android+no+celular+pelo+pcPDF 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_off0000c15f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC15F 19148 bytes
SHA-256: 2e0d049d1a45bcd9342c76e2c9dfe4c99c1e01c7b0966056cd05c8a480fa40ef
font_01_sfnt_off0000f375.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF375 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010b8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B8C 10804 bytes
SHA-256: f89c172ee03ac5e9d00923bbd3b745a649758f7f2e5b834adb95f32f14a1f2a5