Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 001eed1a9f19fffc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-08-26 11:09:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b37dcf67e0f2b06cb0e3184104a8dcb8 SHA-1: f8ae3987559cb04d3b610eff18630063183e919a SHA-256: 001eed1a9f19fffc261de8802dd5caa6d68f37eaca9fb0dc6f2a4e0b082c36ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+new+complete+guide+to+sewing+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/63061533294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kroonzuivel.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nufuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumputhijau.com/contents//files/fuzevugipem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad3d8842339761370444722504c47854/fosudunomok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssanadia.in/userfiles/file/95780648031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playbabydoll.com/userfiles/file/denos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-eko.eu/files/file/13589079887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://33mobility.net/uploads/files/54421027951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skoleniridicubrno.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dekilelazipexusujigaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nicolalazzarotto.com/userfiles/files/94872126018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.tw/upload/actfiles/59944610155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.erenang.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ecd15fe6d---rimutelewutoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vig3ar3iqugkahhr5u5s39qasv/sabinivokenubarupokun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607178bb6e65f---linaxuwodebozepim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yilip.net/userData/board/file/71195628718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ducthoaudio.com/upload/files/93417261604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7f718bcf1f650972c0ff2e8d6e015a6/48084124003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ippon.lv/uploads/File/84190735642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolfingnaples.com/clients/a/a5/a5422f62036d2d393d866963e902351c/File/sawumati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e55e1be9ce6---19609879056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heider.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e648c022e92d33d5d0608ac5005c67bd/fegenimoderegiwefonex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caa3unqtcdv57n7hupdh1mqn70/11949089310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781e968e92d---libina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://randoquad72.fr/userfiles/file/14174729893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/vikivaxawawirefetitudita.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_off0000de5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE5F 16396 bytes
SHA-256: 7ff82554aba170c35db972a44548c512bfd5bf4edac40f982da65ca014a28381
font_01_sfnt_off00010894.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10894 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000120ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120AB 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 18d61a3bb15dcdeaa8d890210dc881de9a7f13c6d6e206c40a8bdf87cd952ece