Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00141f5e0f8d4038…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 07:18:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 58fc370f6d1eed3143052ff59674554f SHA-1: 0ae2d09af5e22ca4293e732d84d897965470ea87 SHA-256: 00141f5e0f8d40386a5f23a16d3f37f10427120c14277dfe86b10289c3c33c54
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF format itself can facilitate malicious actions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=glass+and+wick
    • http://www.ochoadentalcare.com/tacgestorcontenidos_ochoa/documentos/file/
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/268100aed45afb6bc6c911fbc4a9b671/jaxasutobuwetodarivuzelig.pdf
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/1382632174.pdf
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ed1e44edb5979a965c448593ceb804f/mutipijitaxurofejabusopo.pdf
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84700dd35f---zalukonamidutetifufu.pdf
    • http://mocphatreal.com/assets/images/ckfinder/files/41494159973.pdf
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6ca049f1e617a158a7f8bb89170dc28/gugunatobuwilexexipemod.pdf
    • http://aranykoronakft.hu/userfiles/file/mujewigupiratopi.pdf
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad19b974a1a---wosajasiduf.pdf
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f089aede198---83608083207.pdf
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078569e2207b---norolenapikivi.pdf
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/98556235616.pdf
    • http://ventilatoryzlin.cz/images/file/vugimakolifodirobikiz.pdf
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4caeb7743a65b2f7b6008dd270e4b6e/xanozan.pdf
    • http://e2ingenieros.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nesowepoxowijamomifob.pdf
    • http://prestopc.it/upload/file/26533931221.pdf
    • http://cyuanmei.com/userfiles/file/25114016303.pdf
    • https://faprosid.com/file/44463533123.pdf
    • http://jmyhship.com/uploadfile/files/83538587607.pdf
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cddc2d10ca1bcfdeb58a7598e02d6b04/karoxumukusemeweze.pdf
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b6bda641d2b6bbd6d852c864c64d721/28123691047.pdf
    • http://matras-devison.ru/upload/file/dalimigagogefim.pdf
    • http://yacpa.org/yacpafiles/file/ripipevep.pdf
    • https://atlantidegattico.it/file/1064781586.pdf
    • http://ipcmanpower.com/admin/style/images/userfiles/file/biruvabore.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000efb0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFB0 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000107c2.bin
d62f83377129acd1295f271a8bef09494e53c96a5e0ee12131f3acbafea1e4f8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107C2 18440 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013820.bin
1d1ca47940bb95be7a3bf573bb99f43070aa56c5a34449c9f8ec89977203e7fe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13820 10132 bytes