Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dabc8f7374684654…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-13 05:37:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f4c89ed1c1c2ef5aefee89578e0312a6 SHA-1: 6d7ab329dfe9e4b7ce1eb8c8ce4c2b4f05e91cdd SHA-256: dabc8f73746846548fe294832a5ea16d863af5ded9ab517d9a0345bf4fa35cbc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+download+hangout+on+android+phone PDF link annotation
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/file/28636803094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://batterseataxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/64659508710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barrier.exma.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86582264248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ea9cbd52b5---nivokekolusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gres-k.cat/userfiles/file/sebokidosokamesumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.com/data/cms/file/25679116653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alicantea.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/voxafumub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mbk-montage.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82150927048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613aa25f97260---rijonudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcserpenti.com/userfiles/file/xisoxodofez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geerhannutpourreussir.be/docs/upload/files/tawosupasukifudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chhattisgarhsanskritboard.in/sharpinstitute/images/files/nifesebogopakezuzezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptogel2.com/contents/files/siledake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/jelowebojonubaxomuvoteri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gamylai.vn/uploads/files/pakaxujoxawiwina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlevel.pl/userfiles/file/mugikuwamamozuxufonired.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucg-eg.com/userfiles/file/20669937345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161300492f255b---xidegod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scard.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/wunoxuritufirozosojoliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textolinguisticsolutions.com/upload/editor/file/pijelidugidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naphotelbangkok.com/userfiles/files/43800514342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqua4you.hu/userfiles/file/gemuvarumovusurefejozes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-shodnya.ru/upload_picture/file/53866063574.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d47a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD47A 17076 bytes
SHA-256: 97b093a2082f60947e92351620a17cc1f2d10b275a01425b257ef0461b3f6ae5
font_01_sfnt_off00010065.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10065 10680 bytes
SHA-256: c5af81f881c99be05e6615ef0018f919fe24b8582397714a34ac81868d9c3d5e
font_02_sfnt_off00011896.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11896 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1