Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab37803b555df776…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB Created: 2021-06-10 18:12:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 9e6d24587fe812c81c16024156060d1a SHA-1: f3e0695938a1b335c8cd2a54c121449a433c568d SHA-256: ab37803b555df7767e0b2db1b03edfa11309e053bad7885e1326e081900a648f
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including links to known redirectors and compromised CMS uploads. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous embedded URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support the malicious verdict.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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 links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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=calligraphy+templates+free In PDF document text
    • https://boyanbolyarski.com/userfiles/file/33953393592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logo4you.dk/userfiles/file/70380508127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dh0g6sts7uqrnso3u5iqkb04a/sifipovuwojoritenedibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e30d19a58---47250051791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5618b8a581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fccca1e144a6201156359472b6f892f6/jokozomiribodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ol6hi3fqk4mofr3f2dgs3010a7/42773029304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11f6a3072fd23e477e0cf2344c7d2460/zifopujemarizisadofitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/43587364743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095bb2155ca1---29692997834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45625b3a3ace8e851a1dc57b31bddcbd/popegizunesimow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c652ed495---fonowaxibikozaganevuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080349495d0e---92588624116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/tigakugojipanupiporukaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myveolife.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/359d9c368eacd90c07820e21c31a0506/nurotozok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t5h4emoitci1ep7d76cjvgdagd/28685994821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6dvgh02vb3em3fednsrruvh5i/tevosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11b89eefdd6f82f6bea8c0cf6b4b2412/63134047278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off000109c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109C3 5012 bytes
SHA-256: 03325d84fbbe3afde56148a1c9ff0f24d16dd0ea1c0811f9dd3efddc3320a9b8
font_01_sfnt_off00011ad7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AD7 11780 bytes
SHA-256: 9abef4f75f6b053036af3c76a5b238b26b3a34816cf8b844d2f4d163f7820a23
font_02_sfnt_off0001420f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1420F 16036 bytes
SHA-256: 35d3440dae1ebc896564e4e6f70ea95aa3a30a1ac603c7fffbb21b68b8b72e2f
font_03_sfnt_off00015679.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15679 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34