Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab6f3e5c477a1ebf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-06-25 19:47:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 8752d06a31836bf8e7c0d6a943c4768e SHA-1: 7bd0671a3fc0a0219cd36504272dca46f1d25dcf SHA-256: ab6f3e5c477a1ebfcadcfc0a24f02ad9c630c04b4295c9035deb5f5e6e5bc267
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and the link farm structure strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=howl%27s+moving+castle+book+epub+download PDF link annotation
    • http://www.pilonidalsinus.gen.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082282199142---nosesag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arnetbilgisayar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/vedilobogotewufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf20a73d589---6069626136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e21f87c6f4a016951fb07d48eff828b7/zigamojibarinet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartmaji-zunicmile.com/uporabnik/file/9413461979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petukmahaaaraj.com/userfiles/file/mezedenunobise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbbb533a8af---94059461035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/boduzobukuwomola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e257c90456---kogavejijuwavowibod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096b993b7899---tibagakadabakufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c19f394af---75960787016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80934bb7cc960e284c38541d99d22517/fesasidawiparoziris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clasesholandes.com/userfiles/file/nodofegabedube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f7024a1cb---69991755996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/fejilekuwimojasekone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093d77437cf8---3425248307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymfly.com/aym_image/files/kabivugaguporuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primebrokeragetx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16741195431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8defc429cd---neguderivuvilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubin2000-distribuitorshop.ro/userfiles/file/3667541438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hncastlecable.com/d/files/domubatobidujatiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b3c23908e21189fe958689b894c93d0/73354401938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4f11b557d1804e84f53cbb3c7f7ad35/galonavinuxigunubebiwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cac67a2418d71b92c685bd8ee15e1f0d/fesuzusanasar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aa53c952f1---talonovupusirixatazekuw.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_off0000c9ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e200.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE200 17240 bytes
SHA-256: e9f78426379cf56c4de6675a558a82585228ed9225061afffbb007039fcf3c9d
font_02_sfnt_off00010ec5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EC5 11268 bytes
SHA-256: 659ba0594445adef22adac166a17c1bf9be5bed654bc5b0a4ea7cdfedd4eea9d