Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 010125fa5b4e68f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-09 18:47:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3bce6b664780927e5829fb49d1d56e94 SHA-1: 0c3619cc6a94207bed144becbf558a9043e53f8f SHA-256: 010125fa5b4e68f066bc1f2ef539ec773cdf339b5dfdb3739813608ab0f6b8ec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farms, some pointing to compromised CMS uploads, indicates a strong intent to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings suggest it functions as a lure, likely for phishing or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://ww150001.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210909032507.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://romengo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/neponadelogonagov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomehl.com/images/content/files/kazesozotugivobokaxujajos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dee23d78038ad30d4a8d3cb2c1c31cf9/26440835051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mothertheresapublicschool.com/userfiles/file/81294189575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holcom-wd.holcom.vn/webroot/img/files/jikidogapizuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleartunemonitors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wababaripenavinutodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkathirilaw.com/userfiles/files/fidarutodemazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24hnbc.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/14849377590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soundspace.eu/Upload/file/soxuxujelegelivutejimujas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/49756234354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vigova.com/Images_upload/files/pinigomozupetubejixipudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijfbacknumber.com/editor_up/benijoxugabuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135d14234d14---xusowowesuvogoxipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terhautz.com/upload_files/files/regijanavumutubivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ldkxzzs.com/images/userfiles/file/lonasopijodurofovunowufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monthclean.com/uploads/files/202109010055178805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuryakyn.ru/userfiles/file/fixaxizabawajul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skisun.it/userfiles/files/nodasexopuzukifunak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannermaul.com/userData/board/file/83269224156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613132a6ca827---botebeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/duo8fibq3kcracqt4chpc693i5/21266577978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardena.crazyrockinsushi.com/uploads/files/31457471023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amindoost.ir/images/upload/files/41117576781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aicsmindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juwexibedolugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesciencenetwork.org/uploads/files/xipakelisazevex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34211e4290247452efc12813f34a9687/resurulemogagagodisoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161340b926ad58---zufumujodeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=miss+marple+short+stories+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_off0000ead9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAD9 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 58a4bb0b31a3b40f1581c717fc7f668660c5663d15f32412aa28c92c56bf28aa
font_01_sfnt_off0001032e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1032E 17872 bytes
SHA-256: c06795a6f61d70bab9e35908aac9fe48765e33c8b018e67c4920f776398b9b75
font_02_sfnt_off000130ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1