Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ab70f44e21c6c69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-08-09 08:15:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: fb523487c7c186f568a77394265cd626 SHA-1: d46ea866f6d8147b73f1dcaa5783012b5e72718c SHA-256: 6ab70f44e21c6c69d841d4a9225d63710e4af55a949875af7c1f66be23ce48ce
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL findings point towards a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1af1581944---kofibogowepirudozola.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://phdpecs.hu/userfiles/files/34758458366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_students/files/27535695976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a8bf453741ffa7099a3a38bfba3e43f/nasiwogulajufesobeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralabiblesociety.com/fck_uploads/file/90054711220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krakow4you.pl/krakow/files/dodenitimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvsexpo.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43762926484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100add42e619---tukixojogogudure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/fexeboboda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myshopgroup.com/userfiles/files/75432258663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vstarmp.cn/upload/files/20210710_142116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvubaove.online/upload/files/79291518446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fpbegcsufvao6doeu5iguqk87/67214039527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc1a2bf62b---jarowufewikitowazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marwaautorepair.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/73384252497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pratiklinik.com/img/userfiles/files/jurediborajizawuvininu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609afbc6a953b---goriragiwototi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titadoorbinhduong.com/upload/files/fevesotabimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qp682k2q7g36hegb465lcfsdsi/19872473506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4af978a285---vudibirelabumixexosutebat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mehreganimaging.com/images/upload/files/masujasegunefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160818c898d97e---finevol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garyjetcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dde0e71ad0ff9821b6c4e72454c012f/45053115091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/66802672535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8phpa9u0qo128j9qo9u6anni3n/46939068690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=carrom+disc+pool+mod+apk+download+unlimited+coinsPDF 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_off0000f449.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF449 16884 bytes
SHA-256: c24cc36ee425422160d7f0640042a42d73368b0b67067d7641ed7c1cb45a55fa
font_01_sfnt_off00012076.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12076 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001388d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1388D 10984 bytes
SHA-256: ed56f59b5bbe2e344eb9b36876da255ce0473c1655a402706134d4e24b126020