Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab1b24064576b91f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

131.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 14:42:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: e4781a3ce508ee071019b8495114a710 SHA-1: a4fcad78d40524888cd8f64da803dfb9f14d533d SHA-256: ab1b24064576b91f82a7b0276d060a19d604fb73b1d6ed7a458f3d6f3d4904a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress installations, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic findings and embedded URLs are sufficient to classify this as a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9814

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://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6731e13801075cf2b9ec533f4a1db792/30461248588.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0460c45d63393dc8184d1ca1d8e10c05/50315005728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b3bcb1530---24423763135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f935782643---kafeviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbb3e415d8964eead58366ee0b019dfd/66150936957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b1ca0de44---dukizukoweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/672c4582e32165832bbc990735d7b3eb/lafezegisekaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobydick-band.de/fckdata/file/tewarag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/puminakurutone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd8296cbc6---22895385620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riversedgefm.com/files/file/gebetevatopozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64iq2goaiuh4u1gdss7q232ob6/gokolakepov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mumegram.com/userfiles/file/23574303403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05a136b2256405f323d56146458d6285/69691728388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eee1b206305703a2a2a263d5732a5c54/55313436054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalanpa.com/images/upload/File/jukok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trafikyaren.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n985nhp6g8p36610k7mf665bm4/66495890679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homestationrealty.com/userfiles/files/laxotozemaguzizetabopom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5720a57c00---47149009471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorumeo.it/userfiles/files/96468037978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://warsztatgdynia.pl/app/webroot/media/files/dajifijefanewusuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb4954ad8f48836de36b45d10ef5a0b9/41195381239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/kijirukof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93278776975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=gamma+mean+and+variancePDF 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_off00017ffc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17FFC 16168 bytes
SHA-256: 1cfb00680a8a18ef5d5af493cc5b57cfe410abeba37087ee2ecd799c98b61e68
font_01_sfnt_off00019594.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19594 22176 bytes
SHA-256: 043f6709603957678fc3cf536df97597ef782d3245bee80fe764ecdddae856f0
font_02_sfnt_off0001d213.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D213 10204 bytes
SHA-256: 742591470a0cb8267581edca3c2de3bebec4fd5135c685d2dcdae41877556700
font_03_sfnt_off0001e8e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E8E4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1