Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fabd11edaf7349e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-07-10 01:47:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 885b527462fa8da7c23dae8681ad6386 SHA-1: 43b6c3fd27806c866012aeaf574105cb56475ed2 SHA-256: fabd11edaf7349e3d7a560bf09cfd3c5f8cc368e12ffd7d41e9d8ae681a1b23b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the PDF format itself can facilitate the execution of embedded JavaScript, which is often used to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88debce2118021801652246c312864e9/ligunumuvi.pdf
    • http://daotaoyduoc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2sribif419dsum1ctuski9acvr/35781112787.pdf
    • http://dchs80.com/clients/c/cb/cbc185099defa3274d3d4f74835fd64f/File/tedilesuzogukow.pdf
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/tapewonarugodadoridet.pdf
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d5f7be81c---41059615113.pdf
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c34f86adec6a77509424f1d5daa037c6/96469033762.pdf
    • https://kueapem.com/contents//files/14469614986.pdf
    • http://agt.es/files/galeria2/files/medepemujomudefumowimase.pdf
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/dobit.pdf
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/vitamekobinijulizoluzu.pdf
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8b8da8b07e289bd3e02082f0fbf07fc/busepuxakixulekazopurik.pdf
    • http://championsview.net/userimages/77073947769.pdf
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160779cfa85f97---82580055716.pdf
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vsfo553m6jak0rr2t28qqtbte5/rujif.pdf
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dp1nugi4qgbuodktpegp5v6c7/41672119267.pdf
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084277301f37---56267193529.pdf
    • http://moristas.com/userfiles/files/77307420503.pdf
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/zipafatezalojawinuj.pdf
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78861f26f2658710bfbe387d42f727fb/14623272530.pdf
    • http://quaker1960.com/clients/3/34/346d0055920ff30d27c63167e405b0e7/File/zutafozirubimelev.pdf
    • http://rhondachem.com/d/files/4768519195.pdf
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l6glj1k7ri4ogkvitluaqttgfr/36802662802.pdf
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c07bc18ee---wetipelewidubikefiziw.pdf
    • https://alarouba.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/favudaninodijobora.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=rank+correlation+meaning
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d948.bin
553d4d6efbac9fe34ef1817dff3e759a9bdaf80785598fb9a475b5b3da42615e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD948 18716 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010b59.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B59 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012370.bin
92265a10e83094f0c807d2774060f82875567bbdacb1ac5dcc22e04ecb310034
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12370 10540 bytes