Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01307840229df1cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 19:06:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b74665cf156d8ed9758999a928bd64bb SHA-1: c28ee999bc686dd2aa5d3c09fd5a2b0b059bd5fe SHA-256: 01307840229df1cdd4dc11c62b54e2412f5ae286318f6744080c379c43678029
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and compromised CMS uploads points to a phishing or drive-by download attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=extreme+adjectives+worksheets+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8ff65ccc21---45467405562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikankara.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607254fc82570---dapagodopevuxavisivew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792d3ab40fc---fenotatuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ternovykh.ru/content/file/95999884507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jc2o4d3mspncm6iktuv9ra12v3/fopumafujirufikuxita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinaconexmec.vn/uploads/news_file/80092797397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4896a4b19---2544149920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104d52191898---80056044062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgadsahodayatarntaran.org/sahodyatarntarannew/userfiles/file/50469252382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decamiones.com/userfiles/file/57866667642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763ec539bda---74461175133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2fda33603f---pelizewoget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a5d39058d38cefd42bca7d6d8768870/sopuduximose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnmanagementsolutions.in/uploads/30241566413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3t15oamvm7ftb40grjp7mc4a3/54397587102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/86021604868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etadelloro.it/images/file/jejejuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1b52aaffdd---61743643860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609556c69ad20---botukomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9856e27d4f---47645664854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2f8eac4f6d---95074798946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1ebbedc27d42d0e997b5aadae205793/kupipidobibumetumoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamaconsultores.cl/upload/file/91569147048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascend.sut.ac.th/ce/2017/src/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lijezimavoketeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitnessklub-impuls.pl/uploads/assets/file/vafesafomeg.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_off0000bcc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCC7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4D9 16476 bytes
SHA-256: cf32d5049f6548fdd6e273418f17e73d7583b18b29f631e151eea6ada8e53365
font_02_sfnt_off0000febb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEBB 11192 bytes
SHA-256: fcd42f42a79e8e7c02d38c3d95f7a3e8e6e1949d5ecbe0a1724adc311ed4974e