Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abfde3fd0ce52ada…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 23:10:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 351a84a84e5942c29e32fc4548daf732 SHA-1: 2da5bb62a0ff9b0bb76bbad8240ce1983ba92242 SHA-256: abfde3fd0ce52adaf007fb536759e482d9b160b37f4ea1f306f921b35f834514
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=zodiac+signs+according+to+names PDF link annotation
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a2c713dbc---93166975337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47c6cac2a70d325df33643e86d984135/dumolarebifolaxelepiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/regako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1be30091972342fa60184a045a957f03/25767047270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c968cdd802---vurixadavagopipugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jpts2lhcdcvclt16p6b8io9a05/zudiwabarujujidexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiavysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/bagox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac247a3277---tebujepisukadisipupemik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/96103525291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089564d3623d---jesekabudunumigusumalive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martonaroniskola.net/userfiles/file/27359001607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorrstrechy.cz/UserFiles/File/97796184773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fi3vusbi0e3ffl6d2ufi40drj4/70251638483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skoleniridicu-online.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13755102108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gonguyenkhoi.vn/upload/files/66831251846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skpizzasubs.com/uploads/files/11322998228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97d8820151a45f3c731564d74729c584/rariv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb25507037488a5e5120f5b151094e18/losifimesemupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kham.vn/userfiles/file/gawijetige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb9442a552f---xafisubefifurigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/53237352399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vannordenvastgoed.nl/userfiles/file/19346873104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b35dd41ec240f87dd8511277e0da959/nulijojafuribediduva.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_off0000fc31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC31 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 43b059cb57a4f08b5e7483641fd5074a7bc5c33fce6f741675098ae63f0392b8
font_01_sfnt_off00011453.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11453 17524 bytes
SHA-256: 25de45808bc931938d90fd83a4bf0ee5b2860d72e3fb933f24a57f3d8c71b1ba
font_02_sfnt_off00014238.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14238 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1