Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adbe379fc4da57a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-22 21:44:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 4fa6089a325ed5ef2190cce17022782e SHA-1: f32e6d4aba5ae4a6cdc97d9b70631d94e38e88dc SHA-256: adbe379fc4da57a9bf9fe9aee4ad6e59a8ba26224297d59def86edb1f7d4c096
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF containing numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicate a deliberate attempt to create a network of links for malicious purposes. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature, likely as a spearphishing attachment designed to lead users to malicious downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://mimpishio2.com/contents/files/kowonow.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kirakuramen.com/uploads/files/24365544453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markmont.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/xanokixisevazimurifule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicaalcantara.es/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/5778070010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614816ecbf29b---femebuwelojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dennismaloney.ca/upload/editor/file/12839322040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://h16hr15k-h19hr37urn.com/contents/files/2884955582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxcottage.ru/stroykamen/userfiles/files/xutuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612efd54a302d---26055552033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalpr-b2b.es/img/user//file/_0389007001631792601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/22811286440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f171eab00f---jutimupisobelatibukejiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medi-sen.com/files/files/73750415060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushimura1.com/uploads/files/98488871971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sladkiy-ostrov.ru/userfiles/files/86859948765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilmatbasim.com/userfiles/file/6633994893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enilubricant.hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/22175786557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinaburmistrova.ru/files/gubugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/37712871704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22576707743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neksav.com/upload/ckfinder/files/10938367613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4chan.ro/UserFiles/file/80486017055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilimall.ae/uploads/files/wunitirinize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbigniewrodak.pl/galeria/file/43076687772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szm.hu/userfiles/file/94482319446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quanticabtl.com/cms_2018_quantica/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/zuxoxijatukanuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=download+game+gangstar+rio+apkPDF 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_off0000bccf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCCF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4E1 15956 bytes
SHA-256: a0d6dfd0b4679bf1c808f7f1c73f9742fa9db54e23d9ba10e07fa6901799de24
font_02_sfnt_off0000fdb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDB3 10916 bytes
SHA-256: b60abd7c7d80b3c16614cefbc2bd555ec8153d0e86a7986106c338914bb1eb17