Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aeb6a3275ccd1e0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-08-21 03:35:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 14838ad90a2a7a3a0ecd4fe4e9eef159 SHA-1: 3abdcaf7751822e8792da678f243065434d26fef SHA-256: aeb6a3275ccd1e0bb7198ed2ea264a1ea14b4a7e4c13d739c4c309c3c6e11310
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=handbook+of+natural+gas+engineering+katz PDF link annotation
    • https://responsible-tourism-alliance.com/content_file/files/jikakedewisanetazefabin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6b746c477d---gibetubuturumenis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2fd7c4f766---45170693769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/pinerotawugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a11dfcbae0---fajukesazesupeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientaytourist.com/uploads/files/zedur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toananhmedical.com/uploads/files/71519779588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/49633710641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softtox.pl/new/userfiles/file/61652446040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namlongprojects.com/images/uploads/files/sajib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9c76bdf510f5b662d2e3089fa4d5782/wiwefilinipukuzibupedodij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wu-pao.com/upfiles/editor/files/3928035000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biomedchita.ru/imeg_master/file/54060499486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solartgaleria.hu/images/file/mekovibida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hissekurban.com/resimler/files/zulinufuzex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78549ae1d985570442585bae7630217e/49869714805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e95d9b3760da61bda5f3bbb1176e30c7/11077689241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reparation-mobile.net/userfiles/file/79513672682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f224bc7415---sawimumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://questyme.ca/userfiles/file/nuvuriketenevodune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tumwebthailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vofipodazirilafulojawugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a889f015ba1---wivebiwadagonogizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maintogelonline2.com/contents//files/22901111425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc22d0e421---puruxotimumativukonanur.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_off0000cbc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBC4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3D6 16760 bytes
SHA-256: ac85321a7080634c6af2ba75f4c0e025a4143514ba94743f1969ff95f73b02de
font_02_sfnt_off00010f9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F9C 10912 bytes
SHA-256: d76e73f25e91d26e448afbc9a0ecd0b46f4efb0a6162bc86b8034c5bd8911faf