Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00d1cad1c33131fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 04:54:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b9ad101f25837965cee5997a814ad441 SHA-1: 7b6dee846f24751342e4030c37be6b5c87f43adc SHA-256: 00d1cad1c33131fbdfbb03e0d38c510bf17195165d52cc238af5165684e07124
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b799d48c366ae84073dce28a4aed306c/72462709241.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e13143916---76089151299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c8mq28o60ujls4hobt75pjo7j/62733784934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4g9k7tkr2vt9u38rqkikkbvgai/sakogodokivanutemabur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74868c1df7f707b7037ae3570cec91df/juvarigefedafame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16110445d73212---85166282225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surausa.com/uploads/files/99601000484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhs60to70.com/clients/3/32/32806278e47d7e4d905c37b1d6ebf04a/File/57114372563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609848439e55c---nubodajowimebazuduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a49dc547f96501ea4e6430663707688a/27426289915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystal-lamp.ru/uploads/files/14375997735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3819593983a6b399905081f967768347/95478141302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vectorma.ru/uploads/assets/file/sufagogube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podarox.ru/public/files/derebodumexugipawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monyetmesum.com/contents//files/kodolatotonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getem.eu/files/file/12143483403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingtesttips.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/juxivebofareniwati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yorkiematch.com/clients/6/65/653dc45b8f6063886304ac4260dbb99c/File/zorenekiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b08def9aaf6---purukibaxowojexesofumiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/sokew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a729784a928f937d0bf9d13830f37fc/jedanuzarepoxarise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38f378eeaed2574f567cc3b10a135dd8/zimetizidevunagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://presstone.hu/userfiles/file/masune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3cec12f1713eba283c69dbdafc472d7/zenujosazaronepomov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=international+cement+review+pdfPDF 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_off0000c2cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2CD 10716 bytes
SHA-256: ea9ec7496fbdd6cc23e17e09a4ecffbc59ced64480cc6c30b52120638044fe31
font_01_sfnt_off0000db64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB64 17296 bytes
SHA-256: 08e2f039531e2742f631b1b370cf112461640bef3bc6ab329c8c5c72dc5b6c1f
font_02_sfnt_off0001086e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1086E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1