Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01a05076de0a28fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 04:35:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2d73b72d5dca92f79230ad75b32c1208 SHA-1: eff1bc33a2e61e5d8c74f72bbbeb3c2194f00312 SHA-256: 01a05076de0a28fdfda4c934f8d3492420ac68d2f8f426e52611ebcbf643a60c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of these links indicates a likely intent to redirect users to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 http://toonesk.com/upload/zomekazevikeruxuborivev.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://circolonauticofavignana.it/userfiles/files/69293548188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080bf5f3daf9---wulemubopesiwenuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3f5d1631b---kazasuvapujedasipuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cmlrrrj73p79m9fefj69jr2cg5/37975908814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/zitod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4appsoftware.it/file/28810552469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptchasers.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/51982550670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac6a975b12b---83779015531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ineke-ott.nl/keramiek-beelden-imagesfile/netatojejudiwukilowiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4986aaa05d01a83af976fbbdb48ffdf/7906638962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/pinufinusunenizoxaruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8dcbe8d820---26235465330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a405b8ce5---96869460111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnkls.com/userfiles/file/1622634808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b66bf4c6ff2---sakak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a4c6b82da---87656841863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4afc90b4fd---59101852204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6e6a04e3a1---lupenapexabuzopixitane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisnismedsos.com/userfiles/file/8254426005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaiminsales.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuzemuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/69102345654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/824ggi8t1qim4jjs6updfep733/xewufariziwikup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+dungeons+arch+illager+boss+fightPDF 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_off0000ed76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED76 17172 bytes
SHA-256: 1f921e50e6de4a5069df7cffbfbee6e54580c1af8dd6d48bc1a5d2ad1c972480
font_01_sfnt_off00011a58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A58 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001326f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1326F 10988 bytes
SHA-256: b8ca067893514c20e941f2862d50175e1a2bf00878006c1a79ffcb21242e8df0