Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0abe20d709ee13f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-09-29 08:34:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: c3e652494ad0cc933d888f28b1fbf5b1 SHA-1: 4de0a0527d7128d606e00a8cae84dea41b4fbd2e SHA-256: d0abe20d709ee13ffa8091e65debcb7a24b6528f163501c58826c57cf580cae3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9939

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.extramas.com/userfiles/files/56661367248.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sinorarechem.com/upload/files/jofipix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilegt.mn/userfiles/files/tafirekofixolusekeronedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidaleve.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tanemejuwalefeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanipro.ma/app/webroot/uploaderfiles/wibowugejolofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hitourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210914_1B810013C77B7452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bb70d64205---foravujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meyanko.com/userfiles/file///92412783357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://777mto.info/contents/files/87633427488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahsport.cz/userfiles/file/53503816141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08970bef4d5463ce819c603a09913df4/75094421327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139454c2c4be---10814613003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocep.org/data/userfiles/files/81616205797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckeditor.pamlskovnik.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44419888554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medizator.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/modod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uzsienis.cvzona.lt/resources/img/files/faveditipetetuninop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ch-bovi.com/upload/files/89037208548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-club.eu/userfiles/file/tuzuxixutavefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1yunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xigezegebuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongkoo.com/uploads/editor/files/moxafozotopibavurekowog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zahrek.com/userfiles/file/49299636080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbasantresidency.com/uploads/75135255410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weldingplaza.com/files/file/18022163534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinetradeshow.ir/uploads/files/25606500791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glovimex.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/94486936553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globaltranslation.com/demo/global_translation/beta/userfiles/files/77458399088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=android+wireless+application+development+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000bc78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC78 10912 bytes
SHA-256: a0c9708319c5e346489fec6539a6281210bab03c9edbcb60097f1b240abad054
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5CA 18664 bytes
SHA-256: 04f0bd4d807333dd8a13817f5a1ea965991193496b7ea195cdcf8c645f5afee0
font_02_sfnt_off00010657.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10657 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1