Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6b98bd71f9674af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 06:28:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d7515c6f106a70f7b2f3602ee53238ef SHA-1: 2134a636adf0e92b6a59a1e3ee54bc6c96a9b601 SHA-256: a6b98bd71f9674afb97f28457ac4c2f61928d30fef2e5a58b973800e4baa1caf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and are structured as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to external sites for further exploitation or phishing. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting the analysis to the URL structure and heuristic detections.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071eaedd95dc---9470484737.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anoh.net/pds/userfiles/files/desukexezozefas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaongonmaiphuong.vn/webroot/img/files/zasomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a8442e76c---75044679195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca6cf7e8d9---fuxavufaxagak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duproject.com/uploadEditor/files/kofekenezugigexepab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/68909527383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aff698bb806---wunasanulorilobego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f58c1085fd8c2c9c6df510c9eaefbf99/dafudonulixigojivekoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb67c42f28b7fc7bd7161dab064a6f84/52689521635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u02re94k2ood4ads8gdsuop1lt/rulanisibazisepuxesututu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c9ca114563---giburosifonoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1399f71c5f99061a725d510fb4a5782b/37587846722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldwidefilipinoalliance.com/uploadedFiles/files/tigekenejukaninerevanag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-krasnogorsk.ru/upload_picture/file/gadodenutepukisonegokuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazosilikatnn.ru/uploads/files/32852006650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/wufuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariailmarzocco.it/userfiles/files/lurowogeritabenovamovat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/64115547311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/44177479502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729f9bafffe---5713215448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d617e89dcd0---juziko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608062b06f2c3---gugogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0880be0ea---41507356651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=a+bat+the+size+of+a+humanPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC5F 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 15d77c64e6d8b81d9cee0ac0ecf3af72c8b7caef3a4dd0f93f085b835d6c42b9
font_01_sfnt_off00010496.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10496 16408 bytes
SHA-256: 34fb353fd37108616450ec06219e0e3ae0388700c010a627217ffa85a3490cef
font_02_sfnt_off00011ae9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AE9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000132fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132FB 18000 bytes
SHA-256: 681db8cff277656db92fe8994ceb299e74f5dd780f41a74a3d5bc22e785725c4