Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abfa4ae7730279df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 09:51:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 2b59f8aadd583407ad53f9a77f469e2d SHA-1: a553b4e6792e01afe3292ffd3a205fa2f03a52b2 SHA-256: abfa4ae7730279dff945aade2e18106ab18b4cbcc826d5e667dd7aeff537b10c
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a fake browser/software-install lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://kirilmazbardak.com/userfiles/file/69088403300.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://oroblupiscine.it/userfiles/files/79633433600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilymillerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zaruped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160998ddb6c082---14208895060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202105040159128714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607418381195e---48667621611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aunay-sous-auneau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87933764845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerdynamic.com/clients/3/3d/3d9dba0a3645e5854abf1db7654b9c86/File/rujawatutipeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bitgp1ice970dn0k99ns0vdhs7/94305742984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cedce162d4452d91eb03540991a9c078/jedopiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cr2tek.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/vomedixiparetimunelimazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalnetworks.de/www.galabau-poscher.de/main/preview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bipanesesawefuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degrossier.nl/uploads/file/dobegidavinuwomupabafej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rewitex.pl/userfiles/file/41028244522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3055870af6---96836893725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxqcgs.com/filespath/files/20210815040213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86822aa8d27887646c8f655f489d891c/49663657943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxhk365.com/uploads/file///nawuzuxegevomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/babux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac1e44066ac---42863048652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voszveszprem.hu/_user/file/3027061697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a888830a684---nasidubozemawepitukefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/mikoxapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madang.eu/f_pds/fck/file/87363489051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extracam.es/app/webroot/arxius/file/bodujanugitagamefileviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleanyachts.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/binawab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=faire+pivoter+document+pdfPDF 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_off000105b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011dc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DC5 18452 bytes
SHA-256: 1fd367f4eab46d3275abb9a64916aa7cd214c5557c35b68c7428f5b9e4ddcb86
font_02_sfnt_off00014d72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D72 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 5d82b9bb3d86d182fe26e2621e3b0de4a2fef90d1907ce12f663b2fe6ee2e5ba