Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab6db43bbf90f67c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 16:05:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 752a0bcf0c5382a84af429f0137c86bd SHA-1: 34b520b545f1d60a010e7d0383585c06189f1c95 SHA-256: ab6db43bbf90f67c60faaf5d751e97764a2700830782655bd5ddd90277b2d750
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites. The presence of a 'download button' lure and callback phishing pretext further supports a phishing or scam-related attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 8

  • 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) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ahf41au2kql3s75aq3c7dorfa5/fulobaku.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thietbibepnhahang.net/media/files/lawunupatibopop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de708fe2c80dd6cf58ca62870f7db7d2/78637642098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archimax.ch/dynamic-images/cms/file/guvetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bmw-zona.ru/uploads/file/mebasepitapijisowemud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076770bc3604---58776619316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expresskaliski.info/file/68886910869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/36764544617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b35e45f93---11008221073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1281c57ba---23248915504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d29264dc58d---44192331480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/563a78970c946b998712b81115cfae05/50326854356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banlinhkienlaptop.com/userfiles/file/fepemunikipodamegiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulaikhatextile.com/userfiles/files/23692715834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cecprint.com/images/file/30479735166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/eweferimerijufakexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntvietnga.com/upload/files/pugezidasofanivemalaviruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanalizace-ul.cz/userfiles/file/jepekozubarotesebokizak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfda1bb7bb7a223c985066d87e44ae78/80266173683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trinityautorepairs.com/uploads/files/47420742513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stdtekstil.com/upload/ckfinder/files/46432437722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160994f2fda211---94073495260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zenithmetals.com/files/63972283565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=chemical+engineering+objective+by+o+p+gupta+pdfPDF 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_off0000e463.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE463 17948 bytes
SHA-256: b04302fc9b659ad82105f85402bf1e1c8c2f22afe57b49333386e355e1d9e5a8
font_01_sfnt_off00011344.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11344 11480 bytes
SHA-256: 3c507d5f3bc39bc5ecce99ff33b234f92d944e822414a16564b0950dd1562f68
font_02_sfnt_off00012dd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DD3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1