Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abfd83194b498dc6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-09-16 04:26:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b0dc36aabd5f94a558a358db3d74852d SHA-1: 092f4d37abf910969cb9dc5418a3c05daa8aa65a SHA-256: abfd83194b498dc6d40c7b5c83e7b6d5634c7a6491fa27bdaa4bf1228a2f047d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external malicious content, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=biology+textbook+for+class+xii+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://sklenicky-obchod.cz/web/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/34533354554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makanbanyak.net/contents/files/14880884112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highlander-inn.com/assets/userfiles/files/73449881103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nmways.com/uploads/fckupload/file/49099160006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcolono.net/userfiles/files/ramolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otelm4b.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57152204639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eikenhorstgroep.nl/userfiles/file/51423511987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abogadosaccidentealicante.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/92000278490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614045b308718---sulutelakakopej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harnettcountyhba.com/userfiles/file/41736287659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transport.frontiermyanmar.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lixexodesonodugusida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swift-tw.com/lcc/upload/files/jevelitifuwepepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ni0m0h29mdv8dush7e8pke8e8g/bimeziwetevugibuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restravel.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dabukemilulebin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolapezzano.it/userfiles/files/disafopisofubekigikaduwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ph9k8tf62c3808bbbscfvcc4a1/97586345408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistarelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/61597985551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.ru/files/files/11371212570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eluvial.com/sites/all/sites/eluvial.com/files/pizisexadolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esenkardeslerinsaat.com/resimlerfiles/vaniwodep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuning-zone.eu/userfiles/file/vavulubosefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cybernet-ap.com/UserFiles/File/83985984101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/61005700712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debcopharma.com/userfiles/file/xojuxoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krantiservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69072510541.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b955.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB955 16400 bytes
SHA-256: b64389959ea967041da87cfa851597c642effd91fe96feb7b8d13f0d547a8978
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3C7 11192 bytes
SHA-256: 2db706723236be3bdfca0035f136af3af2577d2fd19f7c1b5a1d56cb75575eaf
font_02_sfnt_off0000fdce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDCE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000115db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115DB 1948 bytes
SHA-256: b033f7fcbcd390b2cb396fbb5f03ef01f7ca9afc151f9d9df21604321f961cfa