Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dab0ece6918983a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 00:02:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: dd5c813aec18b344d517dcc39a697d52 SHA-1: 8ff91e41226cccd29e1f4d2e424e1c69fa21dcb4 SHA-256: dab0ece6918983a5d28cd030fd532947a93cb400add8db7f826b0a65c65ff65d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it likely exploits vulnerabilities or contains malicious content. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to lure users to external sites, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c26f5cd77bb---xanajumegux.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://volamtuyetthe.com/userfiles/file/63427044425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99f3ee73bc991b1f8cb95e9b54bd0642/56901399945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/surixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4a7a78ce3---90053021372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rii18vb1udr51dgidcii66ka30/pidob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e4c2472efd---lemufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bafc90965e---kogasinitafemazori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairview58.org/clients/b/b5/b5cf5456a34e3fefef15e35162a7177a/File/sigibelagetudibozukexuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.net/data/filestorage/upload/files/lasovizomujesab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a075beab8cc---rulodasufafumigakovulutux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/48127746566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844bcfb8e4f---89065829574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johncarroll1967.com/clients/1/18/1896e795ecc2602204d707ec4e69586f/File/sizofadevixanujuzefeminib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48fb6e9bfa96d641626a8f1053feb13c/30187168577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be5f1dd4f97---3594320867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b912a06dd25---kunan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8d52a8e51e151af1198f276cc2b4783/58991507358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techniq.ae/admin/uploadfiles/file/7690871353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/kegagupoder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/861f89890bacdc47ef0adfc79b6b4ef5/nobesiledukewoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072419f6bac1---zowazapipojevilugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=sweet+good+morning+messages+for+long+distance+relationshipsPDF 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_off0000f3d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3D0 11228 bytes
SHA-256: a33597191893f3c3ea9b98c4590cf6ba48a6d82ffad7107de13f3ca9986736fa
font_01_sfnt_off00010dc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DC2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000125d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125D4 17120 bytes
SHA-256: 0b0b7d705c908dfc00ff299fec7e30be9afab17d53cd2a044d93fc1ffe7c622d

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