Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 001001a2bddd84fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.8 KB Created: 2021-08-27 22:26:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f2a87e2dae950a6bcb6f8652910fc160 SHA-1: e4b5935de35aa0d766a9b7e9bfb413c8b0b423c9 SHA-256: 001001a2bddd84fde2a56c2b914d36a5e1b80bc8ad06434b53f7bfe95457ce72
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 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. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a2ff996b9e---lalanopazowowedoju.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bbefdbc535---rusovivatapubon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sapaethnic.com/webroot/img/files/92471474961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pics4us.de/userfiles/file/gorejekuwututo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea1opik22e9ujdci7d6g6d20v7/79635249935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a33ef3a3b4fb11ca8f5cf888ef71988/61655107654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/027213a82a217288a6793063ea918ccd/tusidufebuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d0aa5a75f---65723474094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/797aski6fh18plue1el7fop4vv/winuduxowexeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faxik.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92885105284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/564c52d8c9e63dbf86ecb4a07fece6db/rifulekixalemitefilizani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bae7f3d6d---65382628288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistarelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sepidegudoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f418d86489---padizudasebisanegob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/rizajax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cd96f33620c4041352fd5a8a9e0d2c9/62534706784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc-israel.ru/upload/files/56783574272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesecurityguardunion.ca/userfiles/files/mususu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tysons-cafe.com/uploads/files/gosis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b40e1dc33d8---vebufamolebatined.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kgmda.com/upload/files/93374339256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc9f07e572e---183016934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/zanoleruxesozuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://recapress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mutofubugasefilemasafate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4cf729feec---gipamatotapigujeloregaraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=beethoven+fur+elise+how+to+playPDF 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_off000112eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112EB 19988 bytes
SHA-256: 739a98d1848e829cf030147b2e23b0510fa73fc43c7610f4068a7e4fe4913642
font_01_sfnt_off000146c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146C5 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 307cd69b55dc450465ac569253266f68110e06db0fd7c91db7988631141b0db8
font_02_sfnt_off00015ff8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15FF8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1