Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abfcd1d14145be22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.7 KB Created: 2021-09-21 05:17:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 454c9015d7e0b9f9ff15086828add42a SHA-1: 58ad21712947bcc630ad0371c76c4d8f5c0e6115 SHA-256: abfcd1d14145be22938fc4eac3dc895cc487af0b02d8f7da6d77384cbd110913
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of numerous links, including one pointing to a compromised WordPress upload, strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://irastuff.com/admin/ckfinder/uploads/files/pexigiwolodikuwebozet.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ispartaprefabrik.com/ckfinder/upload/files/86723748848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartopack.be/Images/file/widokuxilagunobil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146c1bbefc51---taxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoaudytor.pl/userfiles/file/39019065691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casabresciani.it/uploads/file/nudenavuwoneze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huyminhplastic.com/upload/files/91706141184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe1d4718b3fbbe4e9963d1bbb61f76ab/77587069622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sahyadrisevasanstha.in/userfiles/file/37345930623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artistprasanna.com/userfiles/file/wodovenavelewudix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://univerosg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11824582899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecnoservizi.com/userfiles/files/93146437284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/17885655506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifaistos.reality.gr/~triantaf/images/file/65769720709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/nuwoxogamujavarifadalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoldlepes.hu/userfiles/file/vivibojaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161397c1005d4b---kumifuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doluhosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/49328254737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parvazyab.net/basefile/api203/files/50805554866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuketdriveschool.com/userfiles/file/midaruteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcobernini.it/userfiles/files/86260608612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signauction.net/userfiles/file/budurajufoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adwokaci-pila.pl/userfiles/file/vuwosobapekiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayapalinakliyat.net/file/90940254314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxshop.mn/userfiles/files/lifekuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=8bp+free+coins+and+cashPDF 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_off0000b1fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1FC 10824 bytes
SHA-256: b27d1d8af088c26adf96ec4003b5675930fd44fc27d572395c88c681d2302dc9
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA93 14076 bytes
SHA-256: 09b23e47e645bdb022ba88f2dbf6c831d4f122752d69aad78d1834ef91688553
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED74 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1