Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01663d3315b8a2b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 19:57:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 76b4311a9007de40bb931ac1f66904c7 SHA-1: 1d902d9606949dac2bd3da11675ed74e99cfa6dc SHA-256: 01663d3315b8a2b1502ce1b3697f53f038a379bf45ecfa19e6576973819ea489
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm, potentially directing users to malicious content or phishing sites. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and the ML classifier's high confidence score further support a malicious classification. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links suggests an intent to lead the user to a compromised resource or a phishing page.

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://latework.cz/soubory/gagudigepov.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://michellenevinracing.com/FCKeditor/file/25408415670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c2b0f77458---razenivatizibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://galedo.cz/www/data/cms_files/files/91231486682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhoffordphotography.com/temp/files/file/91794251194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peak-experience-japan.com/85538161544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/8229634597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.almansori-ye.com/almansorifiles/files/4920256173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wewel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104cead30156---tugumukozesirurekimofexus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancephoto.ru/userfiles/files/11046902595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/965e737ce93bffb93efb1a2401946007/35991500457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwiatmetal.pl/userfiles/file/73454394063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfad07b797ffe161404d0333cfc93094/18843222721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/063fd5b41ee749de4fd5fa210e114bea/gutoredegoxezefekojeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/50752177869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/604748b2b580be030ba7edf96928cd63/giwuxodok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubler-son-capital.com/photos/files/16869885614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83d73bd019486526da9be1d9a504bfe8/39007558516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0o3m5lj608k5d5ojfim6js637t/20708775588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hungthanhauto.com/luutru/files/29042438392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medpressa.ru/files/file/gekeboxowiboxexosigisew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://melz-feu.ru/upload/13173149963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c75d06d5c42---pukub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carroll1975.com/clients/4/4e/4e2b018d07aaa5a30c3e4fca1c7a8df7/File/titogit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=materi+permutasi+dan+kombinasi+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_off0000e3e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBF7 10940 bytes
SHA-256: f3fd3b49493773852da89a50dffdda4f7c70a29f33da783099ef2b3fe3b50dc1
font_02_sfnt_off00011519.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11519 17312 bytes
SHA-256: 7e8c81cfc5beb9b53953c04d5c684642ea874297f8dfb0500339c46d6014a3dc