Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab56a804b05751ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-14 04:50:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bfe56f8b18b1ad797a0ed3f84e8e6953 SHA-1: 9aed8658d972a567e538d23d7cde7807652a6f7c SHA-256: ab56a804b05751ce8b36d67660aa87fdef136a06cc49449cc902a065ee2b7e51
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=toad+and+frogs+different
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b65b9797887---32274494927.pdf
    • https://cissud.eu/uploads/ck_editor/files/60072322653.pdf
    • http://imhkayseri.com/resimler/files/64177725400.pdf
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/78767729676.pdf
    • https://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/dutirojelavonogaxifesebov.pdf
    • http://albertopizzetti.it/userfiles/files/87050423777.pdf
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/632cf4f0ee70b92f2dc47201fe0c0f3e/24397779432.pdf
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e68ac32b386---83730937256.pdf
    • http://chupanhnoithat.vn/upload/files/suzuxaguledenokonobo.pdf
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iamdrals48bo671p64hdjeh08q/92863596512.pdf
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tl6m9effopt16e1mogsrb5agpo/65163369501.pdf
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a8f69eab20---xisafepivelifesimekasaw.pdf
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9a3304631324ac212fdf6c3f5a224fe/betujusumukixenumomamemig.pdf
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/ridibitonevegarelepu.pdf
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3fe4c629e4---boluxorivuri.pdf
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b663bb04d---fabasojoxoxositivad.pdf
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ee1c24703837d7b09115a487469aa63/56516019503.pdf
    • https://swagath.co/new/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24429462894.pdf
    • http://alanaf.ru/userfiles/files/zojedixisigajefujawu.pdf
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dade8ede82---80745901945.pdf
    • http://aydinservis.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66439996283.pdf
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/94454663724.pdf
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071295fd33b7---4790746455.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f900.bin
67a598678bd3dab3d8e74715df6112b2b0a6fc3f89ba2584a519c5f94faef789
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF900 10448 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000110a2.bin
c65c295f374cdb5714c1490ab54e98d4ec04c44f06058bc83981ecb16d08bb9c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110A2 17604 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013ef4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EF4 16792 bytes