Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dab4a04e547183a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.0 KB Created: 2021-08-15 05:52:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 48493815598a885150517f4c1a46204d SHA-1: 9556e2376f17a2b3b5691e286e5a30e336aa33be SHA-256: dab4a04e547183a84c5688a79e17f2516d54a90a57101b6c638ba07ffdde46d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, and others to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external sites for phishing or malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9933

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gameloop+turbo+aow+engine+download+for+pc PDF link annotation
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3807903679f83547bf2ffb962aea6466/24336359892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozkayalartrans.com/userfiles/file/judiwabasidoxalema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c89b8c5c058---jexoximumenemajevera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasvegasrebath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e81ea489f764fa3e18a59a9bdb5101b0/51884241857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77c8661c4697c4f7579db9317eda53f7/wedunuzuvuzuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-dron.cz/data/file/legotozinusuvumepefutize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://araonline.hu/uploads/file/41551104971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.training/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/jumukaxisogitosuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bouveau-consulting.com/userfiles/file/63640910799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designclarf.it/file/26335262733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rzn-house.ru/upload/file/61738923346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9ba695bfaf---71774013032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uekekb.ru/!upload/files/72115103749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/xuwagibixarerufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://247hvac.ca/fabulous1/uploads/files/10104096083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hit-air.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70469952116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atdawnwelift.com/userfiles/file/30166488306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210621193214_yb2k8w.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bbi86cqo5rbc50idpvrqic0tf/32820348935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.axelendinggroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a90872865e5180a536609e91f9bb4b0/97980430054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cfdfd8cda9---55549894488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnarinfo.in/userfiles/file/84426478277.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011055.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11055 18908 bytes
SHA-256: 8a8df3044881a843b2d7e8bcfa7e55cf18353ee0d4fc6c1ecd493c3882914231
font_01_sfnt_off0001416b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1416B 16164 bytes
SHA-256: fd494554c7a7a2c4488382a78096c535ff133766c7221992be4f6a58596b2467
font_02_sfnt_off000156e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156E2 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 5a2c4eeac411de33eeae80d5001aa45bcc3db29c333e613d0f25cf14e9b12dcb
font_03_sfnt_off00017094.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17094 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1