Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01382e7ca8f89167…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-08-08 12:18:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1f7319d4a99d959c1377dc9a91180666 SHA-1: ea57371a544c595e9193344f43b738f3e1300409 SHA-256: 01382e7ca8f891678c60f54408a5fdb271f84f84d69bd9cb11678d0d16726b49
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of many external links strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=battle+royale+movie+dual+audio+480p
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cebfc5203b2---sokus.pdf
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/tulorojiwotonaw.pdf
    • https://numen-wow.com/userfiles/cloud//files/4623208696.pdf
    • https://sunnyvale.com/wysiwygfiles/file/90123560047.pdf
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83hhmoqdl4c18s2s37lsouq421/safewusogejijewaxobon.pdf
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6aa6ed6a2f0b76481ffe8801cff148d8/92904952289.pdf
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b9eaf7e7b6---gijutimojagazimanuremowe.pdf
    • https://skvely-kup.cz/files/file/42287824603.pdf
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eca598954dda0ca3adc23b65f7322466/74683883310.pdf
    • https://mimpiindah2.com/contents//files/50991229396.pdf
    • http://studiocommercialedelpiano.it/userfiles/files/kiwapuvote.pdf
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/68372590466.pdf
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bed26e86d62---kibenobitosifuga.pdf
    • http://pahsclassof2005.com/clients/d/d6/d61c4c031b0f3af13d3e88110ef3a3e1/File/93537981784.pdf
    • http://bandenplaats.nl/cmsimages/file/27674696750.pdf
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2a8770ed018458fc019484270844116/17300601973.pdf
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097cc426999f---zuwesinexusazoku.pdf
    • http://psystems.gr/Administrator/uploads/userpics/OutPostImages/files/lobos.pdf
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/revinowesilu.pdf
    • https://apexsafetyproducts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65522351969.pdf
    • https://taiwan-tiaya.com/upload/tiaya_official/files/lejeju.pdf
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608745365b465---85708724155.pdf
    • https://socohoteldanang.com/uploads/image/files/kebekoji.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ce84.bin
74ea40c6abafff908ba0a862ebf25ee1d47d31f530ca964bdc695191fb21b084
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE84 16116 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3d8.bin
319345dd430bd89fa71cb2b26499868ea115461edab4ff2ad43d0d730f2e0b77
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3D8 17748 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011259.bin
c6902e45facf19c9a9a3b655c58124560ccaec39ec8ad1dd1a1ff087e447ed95
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11259 11020 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00012c1d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C1D 16792 bytes