Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abfeb1655937b65c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-08-13 22:34:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 65a3117b044c9a825830cf493c8d9615 SHA-1: 360af9bc600ec930a49e470c3ac2dba63eef59dc SHA-256: abfeb1655937b65c1ff2820ddbcacc6c37cd854c5e8d2a5765e419c61569f87e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to host or distribute malicious files. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7cb60f1094---kilewepadudukodefuju.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://medi-sen.com/files/files/26080786134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077023f68f88---taxanakomeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1agjlwjc3g.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lumidutozasil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fd83d48b27c7ed31a292e9cae777659/rugapukaxizuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b405c3a99fa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/35805849446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdaa7a6cfb317ade07b2913347a05aba/55189765146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubk-sad.de/azubi/userfiles/files/zomisiben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ms-beauty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/riturejefokenix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigdoughpizza.com/uploads/files/87473264583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9d13303f7bb8210a7596a6cc0d42df1/68990567395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-polylysine.com/d/files/77379394693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f702726502---xetewurugatunurevotula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611091c2519ec---nakosugugomutugafudejala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab11126a655---babojafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84695dc5e8---51991245195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajakeempat.com/contents//files/30096334073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/90847558671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d36dd9612cb73ae2c78d1c484b53436e/vivaviba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a8fae074b5a4e3f660119aa39500794/rekadarogotori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2900be4e35f6f2282a9e666edcc9360/saxepemotizuzapuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aslplastic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24262800717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detectiveoffice.net/userfiles/file/84594579175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/697f38a1413f75814bf14e0868ece62b/karasan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=solving+exponential+equations+using+logarithms+worksheet+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_off0000f901.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF901 17336 bytes
SHA-256: 94d514df775b87951cb18ee127b896e8ff80bcd74e3477e6d2efa7e68250863f
font_01_sfnt_off000126a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013ebe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EBE 11612 bytes
SHA-256: 84ad6b65a406d624780bad01fe1bfcf7cf87b3d6d941191f313320b4abaa83cb