Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00a1219b865c6aac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-08-14 22:37:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3a405abb8d298f1beacc130532f081f1 SHA-1: 0e63768ee075e1c28bf0e1a4d279c32a126d04b4 SHA-256: 00a1219b865c6aac9d4d606e24f049ac1096cdc99ea46eb4e77bc29b6962c5ae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate it's designed to exploit user interaction with embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://diennuocdanang.com/uploads/image/files/zilaxuzodajepupiporogoxap.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43a5021f41---gakud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ljlconst.com/admin/images/file/23090557404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umartravel.com/files/87625075315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjccnc.com/upload/files/fotorerafura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peiitw.com/Upload/ckeditor/files/valik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjhywt.com/images/upload/File/98396938725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b21b2fb9e---jubezesir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rewitex.pl/userfiles/file/34004335091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjaimama.com/data/upload/2021/06/file/202106230949033495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j5ad3et72g405pob3ulmbr2ht6/fosawedidutoreda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/93524224325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6ftsdbcgqrfg2jok4o24b4bm4/xewev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dewalt-naradi.cz/media/upload/editor/file/53210514039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s7e5slcvdg0c8hdnikocq305o5/pefijufijijowokaxonukunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c946172836---rudiledoguxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cailux.lu/userfiles/files/90307459045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/148a907f75413a5b26793f33b4a82ac6/20873485886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aprendanow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62109f3570494bac4091dfdf8d68850b/putafosebifixepakigafifof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosanuesa.com/componentes/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/firaxijirilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5sjeh5fkcnksd5a93kh8p6rgpu/rasapekir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6efb7d68ed---wezotasewexorin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/77606416245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=the+towering+inferno+full+movie+free+onlinePDF 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_off0000de17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE17 10544 bytes
SHA-256: d9c0f1a848cba077115e5ac539f519f3deb2c5f6305c1d922e771a2084559a29
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5FA 16292 bytes
SHA-256: dbdb07e87aa7d9144347f25d39211df903c12910326ddbed74bbff3f72d2d41d
font_02_sfnt_off00011fe4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FE4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1