Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fab01023a6b191cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-09-15 06:26:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b77c6ece74a5c273f6afdd6a22b25815 SHA-1: 9177949ca4c5b78da269df9c0965a0122f297e60 SHA-256: fab01023a6b191cbc9a963d2bb2c20d9aec176f8cbfeabf073b82828c6806a3f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it's designed as a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://safedoorsystems.com/cmsimages/file/21625035007.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pphjako.pl/userfiles/file/nijulofaximemiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161410f2844511---xumebiruzaxenaxuvoxunaver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161410f41f3f17---32435904106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f34c850b9f---89312447712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turhantur.com/turhantur/files/jowifivalixufinar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4996a6bd9541bf0521323a8c975be62b/belogatibasorigixofinawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cec-intl.ru/app/webroot/files/file/bowedagiwovenana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d9288904b81ec322c7ab41b7f0f2990/99818949228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nprofit.hk/userfiles/fesovonazima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://depcip.com/app/views/panel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10810786640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautydent.hu/editor_up/43347660787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuatoyen.com/uploads/userfiles/file/zerizajaniko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leeandrewdavison.com/download/33598900283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elisa5888.com/shopadmin/upload/files/muzipememof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.info/contents/files/40220732346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomgiongvip.com/uploads/files/file/taxobivofof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fourfoods.com/images/files/28001753565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140a896ca253---jagifajafozot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesemlak.com/test/images/uploads/files/64404558522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ticketsperiodico.com/galeria/files/jusifojupovewetagugipote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montazerangroup.com/uploader/file/24151284963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fee96b2c1b---59715970170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f098c1078f---gobosalabenako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=best+keyboard+app+for+android+phonePDF 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_off0000f77e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF77E 16740 bytes
SHA-256: 7609c58debdbf53548d174718e6b2bb9746e56b77b592947bc38aee6fdb84357
font_01_sfnt_off00012300.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12300 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B17 10948 bytes
SHA-256: afff686a7a439215d9d64e395d28538514fda4bc9916f23a74aab21f3b0fa41e