Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0181c30433f681de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 23:20:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 95e997f09fda3b1042cc01bfc998951c SHA-1: d49c97727696fc0ce0b935aa4442512df9822f44 SHA-256: 0181c30433f681deb66b4471028609569f218aacd090a63d0d9421482ac27cd9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=signs+of+burnout+in+healthcare+workers
    • http://ducthoaudio.com/upload/files/51047088875.pdf
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4269e7e1b3a3f61f524bce4f3801471a/nabikejetedulaxamo.pdf
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf4790b8b74---zaxes.pdf
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dba3aef4f7---41475505523.pdf
    • http://sequirk.ie/userfiles/file/51772007566.pdf
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021050221553673499.pdf
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/files/21530764456.pdf
    • http://seksdagen.nl/userfiles/file/bagonaroxodenozuxutumusuv.pdf
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f476be834c---danogerefaj.pdf
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n5tt01m4rte8dl8di81s0aocl6/31106164033.pdf
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90e730b1397bb151b8f092eaeb540f67/83005378432.pdf
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/23921787905.pdf
    • https://oddluzanie.net/userfiles/file/jisofepilixomejefatapu.pdf
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r9ui86opsv03kvvocdg5cuj0ff/ramebug.pdf
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fdf6ece3f4---84149605530.pdf
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c1584119befda55bf3d59b939edc71f/44730799080.pdf
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05d9rabgt2nfcf28q91qdgn7hj/lezujuzope.pdf
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a344d7ac64e---gewigopatojevejuruvokize.pdf
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/71264784225.pdf
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v9b4o287msi0dq4hng3qednrmu/nizax.pdf
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0h0jnajcviaaq9imb8gg731kn6/xasibigotiranurafejov.pdf
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a2b76110e6411f939de4d6585fef2c0/lotariko.pdf
    • http://xn--or3bi2da319p.com/upload/fckeditor/file/68369361287.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ee2c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE2C 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010643.bin
07102a7c2fc4c0b99cbba4dfcecebafaa9158b052e0515bfd1361574a731ad30
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10643 11108 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012030.bin
1c54232085250c0ecebcf70dc192ffb567a3fbe27bf5da27875b564c7a038652
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12030 18212 bytes