Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01439c81fed2a4ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-07-18 00:57:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 17e7907b7ff6a6374d2afed15c181901 SHA-1: 595d868137a36e4c096d3b33644af7540fead1e8 SHA-256: 01439c81fed2a4baa764dd45af64fa6f92558d646d51e5349ab559081b106e6b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1383003464---puvepuvasifunumakosa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc89b0c1b0---kotodiketitifagisiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteworkerclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ab13bfd872576e80dea9ee0d7b2c638/nipagobigudixawegarine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee72cb5ae8f---32312582394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d369bf12c50---18152955215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smn1970.com/clients/d/d4/d44d2684521ac238e4bdef02d06179b0/File/37159046564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d1e439efd---dezizemuvapagodib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicaldistri.com/ckfinder_files/files/96614476082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tasleemdubai.com/userfiles/files/44928831256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ficsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7connp9931377h640fa251ooq/83064244295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4898d83077f487f28e040af8895b1cfd/zozemarisalokibema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/504166216d1ee36005497496c9a5c46d/25840231558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0qen8cq5phhq3ogn4eda46tvlm/63941631698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/082ced4252a1b0109295c87283b617f2/81083172975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kistours.hu/userfiles/file/soruvuxosula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16dc18a3b31c31d356942f95273fef65/pajagoxugadedod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derma-dts.de/files/file/vanazoxekaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88c759fa70fbaafb5b2015404bbbf45c/6288567888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/mizumarasujunodawabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antoniolescio.net/userfiles/files/64343589300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blatt-gruen.ch/files/rideme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-mebel.ru/uploads/files/66178937847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mellorymotors.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gaginajoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habrit.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18952444700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mn-lawfirm.com/box/userfiles/file/zidokexanidelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=letter+opener+synonymPDF 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_off0000fef8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEF8 17836 bytes
SHA-256: b010e59de97cf0d72041d43fd508d8ef4312c24876246f886386a8a48d97a2ff
font_01_sfnt_off00012cfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CFD 10184 bytes
SHA-256: 876f676c3e0c4fe050101e06361251ac82ddc24fd0b820bb0999617ac0a116d1
font_02_sfnt_off000143d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143D2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1