Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 001cde5ef5188e42…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-20 02:53:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: e7d79cac97de7af9a7e148d01cb1ae46 SHA-1: 5d262e8f3967dd4a7455e49fb616681b3a9d83c3 SHA-256: 001cde5ef5188e421f72f259273fecc577ec4862f135814a23b81c65dfd16269
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs suggest a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

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://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/movaxutujitibef.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aldurra.ly/images-editeur/img/file/68836220363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614598a38467f---gevevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtamsangloc.vn/uploads/ck_upload/files/64701527274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140fe928744a---xubedomuzazozatifakejoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minerva-collection.net/files/files/91000454650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ebddb473ce---murusunukusenod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaisomboonautopart.com/userfiles/files/vatotav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonerofset.com/userfiles/file/napujuduzewemer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eb9a9814bb---22353934686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.milestonesmn.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/memitabijofuxidaxovigewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://locktactyuma.com/userfiles/file/94621321054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehomerealestate.org/images/file/18987442431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9854c0a1c7353ef9d85d649d471fb0b6/rujimatodaziku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140ca585b040---xepanoderenedarefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvutheapec.com/upload/FCK/file/39129942909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capecoralliving.com/media/file/dakuxefarakuveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhttourist.com/upload/fckimagesfile/tipafomenutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heart-calligraphy.com/uploads/files/202109150925335166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/351df24e44e00a24cd37d96da63cc21a/guwamebizegirafufubolira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.willmarshelter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/347096115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szsahsh.com/uploads/files/zisidetevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spartaksedlec.cz/spartaksedlec/userfiles/file/towonerotegawis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mabifitness.it/userfiles/files/33081534417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=battle+cat+hack+apkPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c15d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC15D 21788 bytes
SHA-256: d1627b229aec77d741bd293a54a132a0acd25307f11db99269e17a43d823cdbb
font_01_sfnt_off0000f819.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF819 1680 bytes
SHA-256: 6c08887b596ecb472c5a0482df8c2f828d83fc5b5d16111ed0caa1fced1b35dc
font_02_sfnt_off00010016.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10016 10032 bytes
SHA-256: 34dc6ae05b5ffa873d0b6f119b39ed14fc7ff068343b06c0c44122253a93e4c8
font_03_sfnt_off00011696.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11696 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1