Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abdb73d585501135…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.3 KB Created: 2021-09-26 07:02:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d3053f5073ea1ad0c3aae31bf137de7f SHA-1: a2c6db0469afbc1fb7bbe77f76dc5b1d94f90f2d SHA-256: abdb73d5855011358f7ec54d1fe45bfc765082040fa23a4e08c04921701996a7
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of multiple unknown URLs and the overall heuristic profile strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144b8c38b3cc---zegamuranos.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://theorientgarden.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/54212924810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halongbaycruises.org/upload/files/36637222160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://managhantasala.net/mailuserfiles/file/noxokabufejutalovuret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liburnia.pl/userfiles/file/38079428751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamgph.com/uploads/file/141134333165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-pluset.com/userfiles/dusevisajobulirip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotrusso.it/userfiles/files/xomepumonisataderowezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--z92bzy85x.com/userData/board/file/24008010317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vin-baietii.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rodof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro-group.ru/userfiles/files/towivinaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319e43d0d43---rejamowoxinudowemeluzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614dcc91666ca---luboxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skywaytravelandholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gotem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mskgroup-spb.ru/upload/file/namudugakolurajusexewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/59601202445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maihome.hu/admin1/file/vezediwowituwokesosatepan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fc1dad76c3---78949671637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotte-ppta.net/beta/assets/file/jisavewosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://georgewongdesign.com/gwd/upload/files/62481540713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netiko.ge/img/Data/file/29733453381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlsite.gewoozee.tw/custom/file/badovoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://em.heephong.org/ethnicminorities/cmsadmin/ckfinder/files/74170684250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/80336144059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+use+qr+scan+on+androidPDF 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_off0000af19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF19 10640 bytes
SHA-256: c70ad13cf80feeb3fc46786bba395490c67dd0b04e07b09e44f40bc217ee58cc
font_01_sfnt_off0000c76a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC76A 14604 bytes
SHA-256: dff6dbc5a23e85de702ebe50a55ff961a9bac6d6e0f7b45cc343714fee09b2ea
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBAB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1