Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ab30dc70811f5fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 22:36:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: fc82775ca3efab4dd9ce9493ef871cfe SHA-1: a9d36628b531dbeef67d5574fd0bdad6790fd8f3 SHA-256: 6ab30dc70811f5fa5b485e8af1c413192cfff3681fc0c888b8f4514dd2c2b04f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was detected as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, indicating it likely contains an exploit. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised or disposable domains hosting other PDFs. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or social engineering attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://xn--ob0bjxt9h99icicrvkksa421cwwp7hiv4d6a.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85855628779.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://odesignlab.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19499710001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5d95e22118---18859014517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vi387hsqimsmis96j2hju6k9se/miritalemiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssipm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7be857bf423b5bc6afe5614c156058c2/73427863871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butchercurnow.com/img/shop/contents/90279041720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://108pizza.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/64378441935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d064a75bb00---144861917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accu-split.com/userfiles/files/ferufuxifirarazuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/decbc31b6dece551f90b965a43d1bcb8/1518884378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ebca128d31345a145d7df6edcf0479b/tapapalilevire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/21380983542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uss100.com/clients/5/56/562308f4da1da23328cfd9e5c9f3e68f/File/94979554064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/pimejumifod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europartner2.pl/uploads/59300122561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsafar.ir/basefile/tsafarir/files/kurivofadixewopusowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lwim-ouargla.dz/ar/files/poxesubegopenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160af0f168e82f---61360872645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a0885a64d6---kulenamadorumofabadit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopsuathientu.com/uploads/userfiles/file/xupudejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://essentielles-theater.de/UserFiles/File/78852772427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empirepin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/rufumizolivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fe275489b---mikuxijazosabiliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=resize+pdf+to+300kb+onlinePDF 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_off0000d60d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD60D 10860 bytes
SHA-256: f88d4e7d5e17c1a97450ae0f94e31c583ab2dfa28c2595c08d10b5644ed4f118
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF19 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001072b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1072B 16876 bytes
SHA-256: e78b8089d34fa58c8536a0fd3910fced0114a73c752e73dc44101eb217324d42