Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00da161f8eee4944…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 09:23:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: eaf5f677f3b76548c223b4182b58d507 SHA-1: 3aab55458d672dea1f2b6f57c6e54ec1f9841d54 SHA-256: 00da161f8eee4944bf448ed371b864167c2c4db6f8af92cdabf676c5949f7e5b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of 'utm_term=fake+driving+permit' in one URL strongly implies a lure to trick users into downloading further malicious payloads or submitting credentials.

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fake+driving+permit PDF link annotation
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2e4bcc5868---40442969723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f4afs0mbi3fto37aqaao2032h/fexuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58a444cf3a389bd16fdeae415e5a8bca/gapunepitanomubebimef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtokapriz42.ru/userfiles/file/seduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d66f5396a11---20135193437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb3728ad35---92938163181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t2sc.me/userfiles/medulil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab563345316219d7ba647886080acd60/gamosaxekuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spc1962reunion.com/clients/c/c5/c535eb5d361035e84cedf1152ec4da8f/File/53086532952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091e7111df1e---7954613571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3a96517fd4103676f0b91e01b4cf570/76772763586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161086847c355d---lunevoperalujin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/julogoluzoludajazinobefus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d564fd9ec8---96973517878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hypotekaprezamestnancov.sk/res/file/25822729582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33fb279c0f7d0e42339717f3d94a3727/kexevodojiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb7e9ed8b2---zabizumavasosogijusadut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f93d9739a41---bigebudimovapaxawazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611808b9b4e96---24123944696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spbi.cz/res/file/kemaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5fa567819---36601345402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vervesimuhub.com/userfiles/file/1686423782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/009fa2ea519773b1c2e59f849b5e3f0d/14049191857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oprfhs70.com/clients/879438/File/juzuzolonajukudanajipexow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://likebarcode.com/image/files/20210713_224323.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_off0000ed24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED24 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010536.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10536 18056 bytes
SHA-256: 3e7132f875c9425ee0163accabbe95b8e05a02cfce463f555598d3e4e4ffccb2
font_02_sfnt_off0001343d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1343D 10536 bytes
SHA-256: b1a2c749ecaecd025d636d50b7acf2bda9c44fb6c0d72c2b91d1e21ca9b7397b