Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2abc6f0b1884662e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 00:58:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 97f7ea56ddc8f1a2d3e9bd9176050fe2 SHA-1: 9a5a2d2b5a7efc3c68e4f7b1e77e1089ccc2521f SHA-256: 2abc6f0b1884662edd54a44d96eb16bf97cfcf24f27d04f363c3e1e060c4d0cf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely using these compromised sites to host or redirect to malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9881

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://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607951969366a---2479086538.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wagnerpc.com/userfiles/files/pelazikibajugeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congthuonghotel.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/6938717202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/33529055666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotnewsmd.deca.md/upload/userfiles/files/jinidijod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/63673582798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elskup.pl/images/assets/file/84836057771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://777mto.com/contents//files/runivugenakugekugabizivad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1f50c57c7f26e3ff83d8309be9f2ca7/fixorukasokidugilagux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/264763a88a56f7982ea04e3b5b1dd454/82857549117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a2ef950330---pawolaroketa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mguc1sc6eo6bnv0u3mnslj7r34/fefekobutuzipam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j8qn7mnmq932m86dv66ubms0eb/vitowov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/387442631e38600a3b6d35e921814e0c/zapivuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windsbs.biz/files/file/9730295957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uslugiinzynierskie.eu/eurostyl/photos/file/60202356113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gi6jevgah5c0tu9ehntm7hg421/konepafazajilofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070c448cfe24---42343480833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/limuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maybomnuocdanang.com/uploads/image/files/35205462815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synagoge-stommeln.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/seludop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72f7ca4417c3dab260b45172df2c9e3b/lumisajonokakapavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leasingtowers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67053793139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ccb0488f11---kuxoxiwezelimis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b3ae9d520a---99610325998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794bbb56087---18111080048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=traktor+kontrol+f1+manualPDF 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_off000144d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144D4 18292 bytes
SHA-256: 2155a900045d4be53d35e6b7dcb1d743b9ef50e89ff54949c955b6a42608000c
font_01_sfnt_off00017387.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17387 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00018b9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18B9E 10192 bytes
SHA-256: 5ae910440c8a00ef7cca2b1a4a49b2a54c78434220e9ae171a2762f6227beb22