Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab2c858604bafedc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:26:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a916bb244474b978a9112dbbe9daf2f2 SHA-1: 5039fd5d4b3119183ee3e6a730b1d82184a64284 SHA-256: ab2c858604bafedc196ab76a8926b9ff813dee57e40312b8cc0bd33c5158e39e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=an+introduction+to+numerical+computation+wen+shen+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://prestinieurope.com/userfiles/files/veduseludabaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940d1d41c25---42125657167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qunjl.com/userfiles/files/52670701754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5f81boj8fuipph76pm736o7rv/duwibemaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsanaq.com/upload/file/2106291034501562529agv6w8vzz72.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rabotatver.ru/userfiles/admin/fejoduzadanube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegreenlegacykeepers.com/clients/e/e8/e8dc17949b7ef813e9937e453902477f/File/sajuwezovul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bbc51f3833---jotadokobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160785cd5013cf---tubato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franzoesischebulldoggen.eu/userfiles/file/bopunebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/177af78a5cf3f439aaccc8b76801e464/zewenifibut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6i3lb6277umt5nouommhi0oqvk/kerixuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcihlar.cz/userfiles/file/lixodizemebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/301089b44a66652e128e52f477add81c/vurada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a17db1e52a0eeb4269dffa3dbaad096/778231303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laduses.nl/image/file/15697692213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4vg8l9thfv6keh2hsr2f77u093/nebadojeponineve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/sives.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085af2b7dd2a---sokusilesulexemaxusofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progetec.org/userfiles/files/dirot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iviltra.lt/images/files/luletafij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajihighfields.in/userfiles/file/ruwozunafimimepawogokub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609592234f723---55005160368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf500f287d689896d7f63e224290612e/kenawimopaxisav.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_off0000f004.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF004 19136 bytes
SHA-256: 7bd5486d87a39c19ff88c34935303d8fcf1fc59b44034a363a271e2f229bd244
font_01_sfnt_off000122f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122F0 11052 bytes
SHA-256: d62a91e0326c76877e63d55318c8d96e89a76c813e9bc3d4b3884ba91cbfa7db
font_02_sfnt_off00013c92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C92 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1