Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6bbcbfb47e845e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 13:16:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 18abb6ebacb0eb43984ef2721ce78431 SHA-1: 5609971f11022b24b95fcb171921537b4fb6a39a SHA-256: a6bbcbfb47e845e9e3f00a5f874d2b42a9680257aaa7d82bfd13d51ace062dea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file 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 compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to lure users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous external URIs, many using 'utm_term' parameters, further supports a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cautivante+libro+completo+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a704a1d4a78---gawokutisag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cam-ceeds.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lifemosenozokumadotufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079dfd268d9e---rujenib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rungrawin-itt.com/userfiles/files/85983999729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rjt1.org/upload/files/nipomofefekaxidazuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orhs89reunion.com/clients/77823/File/xasabaxigapaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelmitrutarija.com/uploaded/files/pokuredawukanedowixila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibangthuaphatlai.net/uploads/files/watigilorera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.com/uploads/file/vubelanep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-orlandini.com/userfiles/files/sezapikosukobuwomatakusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mabuksusu.com/contents//files/zugaxiludesomufosuxuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/dalezusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610eab1e56cba---88535651758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtmar.pl/Upload/file/vodogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d4e678ec9a---nusixakifevon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sp6ii1hnuqdo41s8ea38buaobv/waxukonanegofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vote4dannybarry.com/clients/2/2f/2f5d4f67c16906f9b09010289963de11/File/47262838893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kadernictvo-svetlana.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/nexefuwirufujuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kco.su/userfiles/file/komavujupawuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44074013478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrostroi-proekt.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77522261642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaaf7faaf33b5557156229e1c23ddb25/5831133287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyline64reunion.com/clients/e/ec/ec378541aa9b73e2b99de5ca5545ec21/File/60457500472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzycznescyzoryki.pl/userfiles/file/dufalut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourgrodno.by/images/content/file/64677252559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000be14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE14 10948 bytes
SHA-256: fcb51ce3dc608bf1e6a1dbddb98ea491f0f62f8e70ed6019605173ccc9fa2ea4
font_01_sfnt_off0000d73a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD73A 16756 bytes
SHA-256: bedc099825ea483c5df43dde898d4a22e234cb40875cf15400557b8fd7eb06bb
font_02_sfnt_off0001010f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1010F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1