Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abd6f1b5dbe54556…

MALICIOUS

PDF

152.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 21:47:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 6454695a989a1c4ed9cf29ca12921e63 SHA-1: 3fb8cf28dda8499b74af4f66863d7e5f3fb396e8 SHA-256: abd6f1b5dbe54556db28361a043f02a49366bdd3c2fcf53f8e3f532fc8130830
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's likely a phishing or malware delivery vehicle. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This suggests a multi-stage attack designed to obscure the ultimate malicious destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9756

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://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0hhgve8b2ubd1fb76v7c7h02os/3369802440.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5e16228bf2---tizewowemarexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d410a4220d---kidefirojefigupunuxudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d3kbpm1kqdtgqh4pb55h5t214/6934314095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160857c8a19358---27210427277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/885a3596503833424ee956479064cb41/36559756404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a167059f66---lonowijabididasito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b853c42645d---zasiginarag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c4031221e1---taporedelok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kn3j19mfb0i4f52ugil2q1rq3e/rabepelebolosidowakopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809434c6a3f---xerabazikupapum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c26c83a82bc---29535206916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamaisonducoeur.ca/upload/editor/file/gavon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equantumconsulting.com/files/files/6331846739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607480961c41c---13503068533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29aced50cc03290004e1a253eaf633cf/sikukive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://path.mn/userfiles/files/jidabojeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b3cf0fd01---xogukuzakox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapsalonindex.nl/images/uploads/26462145896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajcsidavidfoto.com/_user/file/47424325836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f46478c327---8122337007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/vavelajuromawikatolozes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2c3c516b4---xamesizagakofamakometipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enerjipiyasalarizirvesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c75bd81f4a---tumeditowoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=protect+from+enemies+foreign+and+domesticPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001cb88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CB88 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001e39f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E39F 10776 bytes
SHA-256: c9b3f768b3854d9fd413791ae008c4fd9d1269f7ee59b8c168dd93e47110f8e3
font_02_sfnt_off0001fc40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1FC40 21920 bytes
SHA-256: 11a46b97903a28ce5d4f00dfab48154c003d582fc7d3e6fc526319e2f89b3f67
font_03_sfnt_off0002332d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2332D 19192 bytes
SHA-256: 5a47f09f190034878704bf65ace84fcf3d40071c34ebcc1386c72de21b06455b