Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1abcde6ef1ab91e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 06:31:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 0ae04f8a5fa691f352a29b4e6bf504e1 SHA-1: 83d10d9431b8f86d3a65a6ba2502adca677ed391 SHA-256: 1abcde6ef1ab91e1845e6a0c04a3bbbfd1fda39f948101d468c95ff057d5deda
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or hosting further malware. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure suggests it's designed to lure users to malicious content via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9d7b4d1b09---62182959723.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mdsalon.ru/img/lib/file/jelukanelap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46be7eea13f0a02c9f38e664a86e619e/17963170607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160726be75843a---84688339013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0ec5548ea33468b979279df63868c03/lilodaniwuniritidemotoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://air-separation-supplier.com/d/files/63858354062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/295095df398deb1c0f5b40f6689d536e/nokiwabebotetowuwitima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harom.ro/files/file/selavuxoladudowud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/74856596005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db7fd3153e908ac892fa1d936bfa6da6/36128687835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nfuj9nk0pakc2i1v2qb0d1dh07/xutuzisojowadelasutususo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twinmd.ru/userfiles/file/kuzopatujorikutiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/226f0e7b0f05e7293bc5533fb360c8e0/88075843308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesbambousbleus.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/zozimexoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobitransjogja.com/files/xefalikugevivilepitowivob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deepex.hu/hirek/files/talegatukebutubojekizad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/dowotunofixodidabexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6204ac7be---sazifunerofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077267fbe497---67691130699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmcp-avac.com/files/upload-ckfinder/files/37667967836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/28006224635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5975087e12d687a2c99082641095577/nuforuxewokevijilonapama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f49117ceed---96923788707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/931aeplg549k5jbpsnr4dpep9c/malogovonikol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfavit.tv/userfiles/file/vigoleviboduparu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rainbowcaterers.in/userfiles/file/73880006882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=prime+factorization+worksheet+9th+gradePDF 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_off0000ecd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECD3 11284 bytes
SHA-256: 3aff1c926b1bac0447e769ad165501c19f954aeca9984246e208b5ca2f0deca1
font_01_sfnt_off0001071a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1071A 17732 bytes
SHA-256: 81b0245f7900f98f2fb6b4c13b743847aa47e5a8e70bea491e52f8c4db25623c
font_02_sfnt_off0001350e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1350E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1