Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab571e081c73ef19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 20:17:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 0ce29ecfd39fd040c15ad8282e983571 SHA-1: de61c32eaf8c54a811bb0d92d92a13996a98a3b5 SHA-256: ab571e081c73ef1993cf27159180c5c5da43e9362ecc99d88c9de207c8cbcf8e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and link farms on potentially compromised or disposable hosting strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=low+fat+cheese+scones PDF link annotation
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/safizopebexavadivakosigev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6adde430b7---78364185951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c54c6941592---surepofufarufika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d703dee7eee77dfc2f9a7e10295076dd/64323991027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c654d34ec3fcc68c6832e74848f3c20/77497104436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0b2b8771e1---10251166086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ce5e64a78---16746362216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6lmnm3s9mhlkotci8hhud6ffm5/19693756366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/revilanogedejibisoris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbraneklapka.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dojuvas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0661e91e822e7f47b72ff41a9a8aed0a/64262752019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agroanaliz.by/upload/editor/files/zuxuwagutokasegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dc83745289c32edcc4214e62f1312f1/fuliloxojawud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ef0cb092e8---dosuvidezufisamovoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moyamoya.center/images/hand_uploaded/files/lewamifetonomivejesuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae88760da9b---rogaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a85f45eab2---kefeduzuvexik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/kivez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dahchen.tw/userfiles/file/tiwozudaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdds.be/userfiles/file/leguna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf762fef924---wusox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/durulepawateperajenepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gustosandvic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34797891346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50ace6f664503543bbe1aea4d3963b5a/puxexibumatagage.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_off00010d4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D4E 18512 bytes
SHA-256: 5a5220b9adb0b80cc2b4955b5b488c33ea61f58b1f64f6240fd9a6dec2a79b86
font_01_sfnt_off00013e2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E2E 10236 bytes
SHA-256: f4debb118944dadec065a591b81d8c19760fcedaeb368c0aed3e32b304587fe8
font_02_sfnt_off00015536.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15536 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1