Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abf54299bf38f600…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-07-18 02:12:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 30dda8df567fe352dcb6c5db7122ad70 SHA-1: 1ffa70b18cd36586325654909b034fe653bff40f SHA-256: abf54299bf38f6005d44ac366811f16b668c64001d5fd0604d58824d31174292
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm directing users to multiple external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to external sites via a seemingly innocuous PDF document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/89112942257.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.zaluziemalina.cz/userfiles/file/tadojubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/53255185929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c60c6be0a71---40131323547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copperscraphandlers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96949572851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budoprojekt.eu/obrazy/file/jipurarutudobevulugiseles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctkupavna.ru/upload/file/42624356561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608abcb9f3c29---basawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mio87t16p391easkoafnhj25tq/81861715917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73773c59ab26447a28ff5a2bee2e974e/gekawonemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf1e370d73c---xejeloxidofavawudega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ises.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/81703107946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b30f3a11c86---wodezepir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac850b8398a---82380063818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af6497f2db2dee545cba8edd932e11c5/65122913984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b269e3083b0---lugutanawikubesepezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/67032359229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auburn-companies.com/userfiles/files/zogigulinote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d13b8d302c---9687280730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sahyadrisevasanstha.in/userfiles/file/15810862821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubletroubels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160753c74b1599---pulonane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b1ssb7s9586c9i2ai7vvsogv5/79731337593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pestresolution.pt/site/upload/file/23011572418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097ff5f5b9f3---812150367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businesslegalgroup.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/89855303951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubcrudupsonoma.com/clients/1/14/14cf715f5cd05ddba197ceaa5938d7d5/File/gupofesopasovilesuzusuwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=it+suffices+toPDF 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_off0000e161.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE161 9968 bytes
SHA-256: 83c86f30d452e98badd0cb06630d77fc435cd75ad653b39793c16c0ca0286a41
font_01_sfnt_off0000f79f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF79F 17752 bytes
SHA-256: 7d00ba2e6c40746056f270b598170d83f500b9bc594e51f990f33eeaacfa76f9
font_02_sfnt_off00012601.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12601 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1