Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab06a3b817c288cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 13:49:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 54601815dd93e577d5e989261cb65066 SHA-1: bc47139f4103fe243a205c785272776901ea1912 SHA-256: ab06a3b817c288cb59508b040ae1c86dbfcd009466b9972db9239a751ce38095
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs point to a malicious redirection pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=2008+subaru+outback+repair+manual+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f2ahb5cae1c1rbtbpr2g1bes5/bigedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technocom.pl/editor/file/36436693541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac36b35679---3889412062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb4e5d77c5---93097628390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://branchennachweis.eu/userfiles/file/87960585404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/userfiles/file/189815271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resulgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/giduzigijoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soyaksiesta3.com/userfiles/file/42436947757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dffe2e44ea---22132086815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/74243146719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856e359eb29---zotoviwojuzatotokonav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heninrealty.com/userfiles/files/remiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/1848382836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rulife.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11181157105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eoiv3k8525osdi2jcdkpe33a69/1221733497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021052215504273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a0e5a6719---zozugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindonis.com/userfiles/file/pamebazosinisoxonesode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d08e80b483c0a06e61ad7b6b4e57bdf/zukikibatotagijugobemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skkl.cn/filespath/files/20210828014201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/71942670312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pathtojanna.com/userfiles/files/mofiwagonuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slbreakingnews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87161490961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetownsendfamily.net/clients/a/ab/ab79602242cca8f930cd52af13df1d51/File/64237889072.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_off0000e8e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8E5 11468 bytes
SHA-256: e6f476f2fa26c6107b649854af271e32a954d3d01f9f63b13cccf2bb0abb8e3d
font_01_sfnt_off000103d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103D0 17812 bytes
SHA-256: c9e7768410048f303fca04e8d3648a7449f5ac7a7406e3f199d28c12bfa3a5c8
font_02_sfnt_off000131cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1