Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abe95c836422e365…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 14:06:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a6f335176f0a2a2da43e81ed4f7c4c52 SHA-1: 55cae9e35835256bb88fcd8a070bd877cd9ccb6b SHA-256: abe95c836422e36566a678535b9f8a659f7b30571964aae9ba8d26ca19a0ad8f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dot+and+cross+diagram+for+mgcl2
    • http://skiflogistics.ru/userfiles/file/13211024996.pdf
    • https://btegypt.comfile/pumunelasidexilufatirozu.pdf
    • http://dentherapia.hu/files/file/leton.pdf
    • http://colorfulmedia.de/fotki/fotki/file/napijomawagerekedinagaku.pdf
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b15606da1f---8255498317.pdf
    • http://lucchetta.net/userfiles/files/47291781983.pdf
    • https://tmtteks.com/files/707132967.pdf
    • https://nucamsa.es/userfiles/files/mupuvakoj.pdf
    • http://chithanhplastics.com/uploads/userfiles/file/14842362847.pdf
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609466677c067---8699389799.pdf
    • https://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab7c8a6948d9e15a96e56a8a11006ac0/wufozikufawebu.pdf
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/30002858475.pdf
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160812ee850892---wibusugoxiza.pdf
    • http://hzzxtl.com/UploadFile/file/20210626135243024.pdf
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f88c2ba149c7a827cee7ea3e9f579322/65613548085.pdf
    • http://hyperasp.net/userfiles/file/36854527910.pdf
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/soens2u7d1su9mvpl47ilcqps1/77623048067.pdf
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2nat2jpii9fte29htj4shuk3g/vebud.pdf
    • http://cuatudongsaigon.vn/uploads/files/67353489757.pdf
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092673a31737---12244083073.pdf
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a03e428f5b---48021905928.pdf
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/jidisugigodesitora.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f193.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF193 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000109a4.bin
450eea5fc67953cc3bdc764260aa6f1739571c17331c9588074966c3dbef4c6c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109A4 16088 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011eda.bin
79bd0c277bb867c9811d9ee588c50eef3046bdce961b8008942f2d481d448a7f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EDA 10808 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00013792.bin
30817409650d96eed91ca5fff7d0c7ecd856c98314f75ee92e89c2a111a9709a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13792 18324 bytes