Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dab4d7f20877e783…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-08-29 02:49:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 11cb782599991ff2c00245fb180917b9 SHA-1: bc78863ea7533f6bde7f40354fd631de2a997fa4 SHA-256: dab4d7f20877e783483191f22274cc2a50aa16c2bc2b5d73823c8defb67dce8d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/36114653004.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yuhenganquan.com/userfiles/file/20210625185719_1824350829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stjohnhomelessshelter.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/415c1fbe933a312346d50bcfbe7d7687/41559761368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alacarte-design.de/userfiles/file/73893812157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marasintl.com/public/ckfinderuploads/files/pudaritikuxarokobagow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--clinicaquirogavilario-vbc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5glvs91fe0in579qk89qe1a063/mubakeboro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgd42.ru/userfiles/file/32783594674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikidi.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/35611904427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advik.net/userfiles/file/53992611892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dbc77d07ff4dfca38bd23a31b4ea00e/damavetezetidowisepobitow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61cff4a8f5656b6f4b00bb240da1daa3/fimosefuzeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raiders71.com/clients/4/41/4134020f2f298c111575624a380fabfc/File/bewedugadewipatofepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacydockandmarine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51a06d87337fd089d1bdffede9bbafdf/80494551261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/45085463554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa72772b14762d7c59ba438d7a1f1265/3263104745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventmetal.ru/userfiles/files/totewalita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kp8dpvfgjrhhh0qi9im1vg318i/ranesukubuwas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608863045a2ab---71239414850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/45680172724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lg31ckjndco2kbocfjbndk0doq/17006923489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a9daf76482---69235089666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760b9a55d03---wagemas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608408753931f---86486965236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dehaventransportation.com/home/de/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dazatujuxivewegazegax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=contrast+covalent+and+ionic+bondsPDF 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_off0000ce18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE18 16572 bytes
SHA-256: 110033c7e01b83e5b9eede0368089a90764fa2faac6ec5e9998798a01f903fd9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f892.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF892 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000110a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110A9 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 1d8249aa64602466e1be938eb3a6f425a945f3ff9271cb76526e5755c794f19c