Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abdbdc3603ffb418…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 13:59:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 1967ef7a2915ab111361f744279b7091 SHA-1: 0e2e9d3b40f0e52471e8bc8988f7fb4b993712e0 SHA-256: abdbdc3603ffb4186fbae6587cfb99242550692d5578624caf5f6ef989b422c2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious content hosted on these sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160840e2293c8a---lapanemi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://zenithoverseas.com/assets/userfiles/files/96143339904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16120a1989f02f---redusotapolikogukerufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fcd26e7b49---nudokijufisawibonusibiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://termosystem.pl/userfiles/file/44284211696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.es/upload/82012601733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelspace.pl/userfiles/file/mipalolobanuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiosushi.com/uploads/files/pawinibepipuvutob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsbuffalo.com/uploads/files/simejujowubemavuvoduzav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd4d7e30c0df25c58c84dece3ee2b1c3/11480595397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f88679e370ce622b6dd2a1697242250/91058955408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umrllc.com/userfiles/files/pivebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1aedaff4071fcc9dc9a1978234232db2/favomuwusevijujas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b55e01fce---giketerab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c15639c63a4b8857c2dad4e28882960e/55103281899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dai5j8quufhjn1mk7ljsft5772/19326062251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiemdinhcan.com/Images_upload/files/nikipevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orenprom.com/img/account/file/17089861608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dintek.eu/uploads/file/70442959347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16101323555adf---besizikivokomozire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://virtuozi.ru/sites/all/sites/virtuozi.ru/files/39899986780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbjadow.pl/attachments/file/41654692183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luyenthidhcanhsat.com/Images_upload/files/57554861417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=alfa+romeo+spider+916+owners+manualPDF 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_off0000de57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE57 11116 bytes
SHA-256: c0ef68005170b07c10871fb0d187d9c099a2893b23bd8057987712293ebe1011
font_01_sfnt_off0000f84b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF84B 18640 bytes
SHA-256: 32edb4b377d803072740336dd992bbd8beabbe2c4603a41585ee15128ad5a298
font_02_sfnt_off000128df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1