Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abeb15a3e27b63f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-09-30 20:21:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3d677911b6a71ee3535cfe293c165725 SHA-1: 50b1fd9910b75dadf013f218c19491a32b774645 SHA-256: abeb15a3e27b63f56ba8880c36541e977dedd865690c7c1cdc6fcfb4e6db26ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a PDF link farm, with many links pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://sp2wronki.pl/fotki/fotki/file/12506022480.pdf
    • https://majubesar.org/contents/files/xejav.pdf
    • http://cerrutistudio.eu/userfiles/files/segasidof.pdf
    • http://briquettemachinery.com/d/files/66568364536.pdf
    • http://rybarict.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/momonoti.pdf
    • http://partnerplus30.ru/images/fornews/files/ropamoverimowoxosasupul.pdf
    • http://countryclaim.cz/userfiles/file/lepubepoxisalepisipedu.pdf
    • https://mabuksusu.com/contents/files/57796195194.pdf
    • http://wohntraumgmbh.at/livubiwiregevu.pdf
    • http://bouwbedrijfansing.nl/userfiles/file/49671696820.pdf
    • http://oasishs.com/uploads/files/20210926_134845.pdf
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/mugoletafobu.pdf
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161556b1ca4972---laxiwidigetag.pdf
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615238e1afe22---xitedonux.pdf
    • http://irinaburmistrova.ru/files/nukafixit.pdf
    • https://4of100churchstreet.com/assets/media/files/76682006699.pdf
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b003646f60d2f12920d724c3033f99f/70798867881.pdf
    • http://hoya-system.com/uploads/files/202109201219105369.pdf
    • http://lexprikson.com/admin/style/images/userfiles/file/83974536377.pdf
    • https://cottonweb.net/userfiles/file/divonakiwokudinetudumoxiw.pdf
    • http://solis.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fewumujof.pdf
    • https://diarch.in/WYSIWYGImage/file/simupu.pdf
    • https://rt-totaalafbouw.nl/userfiles/file/duteg.pdf
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/60435466843.pdf
    • http://vsrru.ru/userfiles/file/busokiwosovikib.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=kissanime+the+legend+of+korra
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b3a7.bin
b8d5ce282763d174ea1ddcf125eeb34893dfd5910005d12ba8e4ae8f33cb5d65
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3A7 10884 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc5c.bin
d97ba18111a85372aac8f3aaf9f33af3d57e0d28ac511ce05a98161b2a94629e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC5C 16216 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f5ac.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5AC 16792 bytes