Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01096261b23e8c55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 03:33:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 4032a0a42d96ee2e2a182846ffd20998 SHA-1: bf53b75b54640fb1f9b42bbe1af592dbbf386a9d SHA-256: 01096261b23e8c55333674d0fafb930d142b39c6bd00e5edcce8effed73f7d4b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, several of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine its function as a malicious link aggregator.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://bustotoronto.com/userfiles/file/ratadik.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sanaspinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/54194368045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hppen3g9ienor2o51m1kbpbo4o/womelomatidekawizogonux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventilatoryzlin.cz/images/file/sibixenevitepow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d3534d934f48e822ef7b55a84d1d816/varufino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insureacompany.com/userfiles/file/85726511377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/91191667106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karolinanowak.com/userfiles/file/dejilabeziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyosungulf.com/uploads/file/18860714907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanyauntuktesting.com/contents//files/xaranulezapebexebaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackshirts1962.com/clients/f/f2/f245580d3072b78cda2271cf7a7e3f61/File/5583936696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevoir.hu/uploads/file/67367978477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078be8cabbba---duvimamogedewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safedoorsystems.com/cmsimages/file/fudutoralom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantryscan.com/123cars/imagefck/file/25949555013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e1c2442cb9---kerafipamisukefupiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fdd348b52df6a3659e99ab3a6bc216c/73200413614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://areaengineeringsrl.eu/userfiles/files/buvawevokitozoxiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/koditer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cb7dab62da5f3b0c3067c8b219ee90e/82906972981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stagticket.com/fck_upload/file/39204245403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savvyais.com/userfiles/file/sodijokizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4fcef9a0fafe1a6054376626e25a05b/9482245791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c3570ae52---53891502695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=tuttnauer+clean+and+simple+ultrasonic+cleaner+manualPDF 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_off0000d6a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6A6 10736 bytes
SHA-256: a92221ded3a7658763b2989968acee6e57af79f1325d0e6aaabfeb366ac846b5
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF49 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001075b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1075B 15940 bytes
SHA-256: 6a0fde39e64c1adb7f957641281ce6bd80bace83c8ee886918e44e2aa0b02045

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