Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab64fba6a89f35a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-07-22 13:27:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 6d82db66a780c95aae01d582861ee8f4 SHA-1: dd470d813b2432a0a6817a1a4227fa8453d1fb12 SHA-256: ab64fba6a89f35a4636c9e73ec18d034d8a528991277e97680a0121623e3923b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malware or conduct phishing. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics related to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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 http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ddc5ab9830---37902951717.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088c8913a356---26768635238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fbab87ff2c---51911994687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18957dbd1ef029af1e7153011bc44ef4/petojuterulogowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euroinstytut.pl/galeria/file/fufisusajotijatafusiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tryinvest.eu/userfiles/files/loxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e0cd21cbc4---kositobusokejud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094db9e3aeec---7356363275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/zedakaposarusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abfad07e0b2---98006760623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincentpopetutoring.com/clients/d/dd/dd6b7bcf94cac99d3bed97cf8166637b/File/pofepeseta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a29e508c77f---32900014825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttworld.hu/uploads/content_files/files/17056213804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banghenails.com/upload/file/7676562887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopedrazzini.eu/userfiles/files/32836493750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27c9669ce4711a1a24022a5c37a51663/25514909235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inwama4.vn/webroot/img/files/toduse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/idmf00fdgb68kggok16lcmqmtb/82087421395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carparts-fixture.com/file/file/33236935848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/wekibajudikixokigubim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6901781bb25430baf4382f1cf657799/tanelobonax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oq9r7uduubonr5eb5j8jpgojja/dexupiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0m2l4mjevacbra796bceisiu4a/75025951390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=mcq+in+cost+accountingPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f4b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4B5 16732 bytes
SHA-256: daa1b1dd042c2b80316a5ad78b4024a8d65787d7a610d610f4451315a583600c
font_01_sfnt_off0001204c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1204C 10364 bytes
SHA-256: 16da96eda5186a70b28be61b1b98aa5eb2ad106e4563ffa8a0b15c787cdfaef7
font_02_sfnt_off00013799.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13799 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1