Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01859cbbd35ceb8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-14 23:18:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 3be5fc76648d1e37e08b73bfcb986add SHA-1: 062b0b797100eecf29e7ebebfd425bdcb405c213 SHA-256: 01859cbbd35ceb8bf78447d7b09929715fdf6e2eb96444329708b39b6fee0b2c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and the ML classifier's high confidence score further support a malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=redmi+note+6+pro+kernel PDF link annotation
    • http://joyerialaplaza.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pivutenudubamixelufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primeasset.hu/fileok/file/2405687382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drsuthichai.com/userfiles/files/wamonexuwojenigezujov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geluidsadviesnederland.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98776911477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckeditor.pamlskovnik.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tarami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2.net/contents/files/83256785105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deborahkay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mopefesowokiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all4pets.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80619123424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://net-mex.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fibemagefaforapikus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradzo-ep.com/uploads/files/79793441185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grubstreet.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29371175823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.sg/images/users/00000000/files/78593445766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ed213a464199607e35306a0aa746447/92122250369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loyallcanada.com/editor_files/file/ropawarawonur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalonetours.com/userfiles/files/80013216388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lactopad.com/uploads/files/lodaruvumasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49d33d21d2f8ce6dc868e55a916f7627/lawasolivilonazapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danchrisjewelry.com/userfiles/file/devudijuwodajavubipifofaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a0bd0c77bb---93548636217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalashad.com/userfiles/file/dagitofatiwuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gallery4walls.com/upload/editer/file/loxija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a15ecefad0---23347619776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cochemical.com/upload/files/25230823865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-fasteners.eu/media/file/13809354758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bsa.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48768825727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myhomeinparis.com/userfiles/files/11625121307.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_off0000e461.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE461 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC73 18364 bytes
SHA-256: 4b1e3dcb66cb0be5f162075974e918fa33ca92b0b122797403c30529df3747a9
font_02_sfnt_off00012cb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CB7 10528 bytes
SHA-256: 0c084b35b26d71fefafe76239b5dbdd2e38cc16b937f5a0a2cb5a48277201097