Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cabc923662df9a49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:47:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 222d7eb5e65e0288fda98fd622053b7c SHA-1: 187a032b6920126eb68a5bb0859f0eaebb2b3aa0 SHA-256: cabc923662df9a49034645472779363f2c8e568f164124ab313f44aa53dd5b9f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=danby+5.1+chest+freezer+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/zulolug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shatalarab-llc.net/userfiles/files/53920271573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba71b51ec24---liwugesijebilawerivegut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6187a13c52bf7a202d9b1145514cff93/12061645973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vipbeachhouse.com/uploads/editor/file/36679523767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicalproduct.hu/images/files/zobedudizawuwofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okud-istra.hr/userfiles/file/94686332382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savaksangida.com/resimler/files/93868771431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mb1qa791b6g8hnf4maitcosr6r/zafojasufilowarakuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafosaleservice.cz/images/fck_editor/file/sidukiropofuzisetom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cerathai.com/image/upload/File/bujiderimemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/29627850943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c167b92616a---jiwezefopazoxelufanazuzar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2hblvcuuln10se9f6f3jshbvr3/xanivos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcc8399785f1654fc8d3c29abd2652f3/matixomipufomoselovowajev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://communeouchamps.fr/userfiles/file/tobumidewel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hkfki48i7cht2dpjeslkhodo20/kalanofamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o2vkjr65nvie6815f2osnan90v/14223973466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe7krmdnd11moa3igi569rie49/loferegan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ftha.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nekunokunafofebelef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/girebuwulazuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eba5b45efe442fdcde1585653916d4ad/65198020384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://batiment-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/volufafaberokamama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meta-min.com/files/dagajufedomuvufefuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607836b06784b---figedagamukivu.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_off0000b989.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB989 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d19b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD19B 15048 bytes
SHA-256: f5341833dbd9a166991da64d7f9a2170a508d117a849fe988d2fc57ee22c2942
font_02_sfnt_off0000f724.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF724 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 294a70ec0817e4bae75bf03eab60d882a1b323d970ee91e9781d834f91d86e47