Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abf15e4068826091…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-10-01 09:31:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 744cf27f7073ca2a7fce46bf26d658e1 SHA-1: 2f03ad318f520b294bc25b08a6335efd6932386a SHA-256: abf15e406882609159cf491f38526e2ecd35df3debe08e5e75e51b4606da8933
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI links further supports the attack pattern of luring users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+set+up+micro+sd+card+for+android PDF link annotation
    • https://www.sudoku-cool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xutepejebitizumef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tumsad.org/img/editor/image/file/wusenaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birutelorasin.com/contents/files/salufudefovapepagunututim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3sdent.com/upload/files/wajarugijexipugej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161318bfb24837---22029688071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148d2838899e---68887261505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gikguamerica.com/userfiles/file/83793228590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elazentrale.de/images/uploaded/file/50153513977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrt-foto.hu/_user/file/wiladivifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongweivietnam.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/connector.php?command=QuickUpload&type=Filesupload/files/23603594208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibericadearmerias.com/file/biwurufoxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--nellieskche-0hb.de/userfiles/file/zoxexorutizesaduguzemup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zl369.net/userfiles/file/58419050943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xaydungdonggia.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/tevatorifunez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.salpasafarit.fi/tiedostot/files/68839428519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tradingphrases.com/userfiles/files/90307693662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142dfba5ab52---ralas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaziogluenerji.com/images_upload/files/47223844239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16151aaf1ea619---55163919782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theelementrama9.com/userfiles/files/6035344651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhac.ditimchanly.org/Images_upload/files/13189747992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x04ydivan.ru/userfiles/file/75150889632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000afd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFD1 17048 bytes
SHA-256: 9c5851d7427030d5af4839ba6f87f4702d936936312d7a17eee165f9424764a4
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBD9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3F0 10912 bytes
SHA-256: f9b0a3513c2c5dfd38cc421d5e56e9a432ddd04752997f5c9fef4ecb7d4cb074