Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abdacd27a46b500e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-07-03 11:00:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 160247ec5f1c109f8679dfa0a6880cee SHA-1: ac817a10fc9a8ce49b37139dcb4fc8621fe16d08 SHA-256: abdacd27a46b500ebb08de91306361ccd67e1874a28d5b691bcc707ab8f0f2ac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests a coordinated effort to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mcbrbmq258ea1vrrhq6henbp7r/makosazagigofafix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lorofilmes.com/Uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53920690030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenxuezj.com/images/File/tasarigegot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/79577242090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.logistiekverbeteren.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suwigowuxata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educhina.mn/editor/files/28090572457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luatsuphutho.com/upload/ck/files/nasibozuwururalapojibosag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglatalkies.com/dynamic-images/cms/file/83202361106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e61abbad90---15746937708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/224a6b4672bc3984048fb8b424588d5a/87698086069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772ce0ac65c---67270964890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daonshop.com/files/fckeditor/file/75348742458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42a797539ec95be71ecc131e7555785a/zudigozari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emeat.ru/var/files/4588884559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ct8b7lqtah72jbpcrh82d5l0hu/kibul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a823579535e---xusedusoxiler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1434073ac5---31909790077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbe03e69ab---xidaxufiwizibukonudar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mujuerp.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/20210529154159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///vemirak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-souz.com/userfiles/file/33206982399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0vk4sq64c4ug5f4s5au1prn6q/mewabemelasafepupuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://judyzscotties.com/clients/1/1f/1f1ef5c9f72ce0e5bea5babf356718c6/File/gutubikakusibukuxelus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=miles+to+go+mileyPDF 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_off0000c7b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7B9 10192 bytes
SHA-256: 9bb90512d954e607faa0024b523f14db11c475dd797f7ff7fc85872cc6997d9b
font_01_sfnt_off0000de9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE9F 16944 bytes
SHA-256: 928e14c0626902d419d4d6068f2d12efe29d08c1e4040537774dba5b5c6ce379
font_02_sfnt_off00010ac3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AC3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1