Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01a356770cb7b05c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-06-25 15:46:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d81a9bebeba4da0c3088ee950d0821fb SHA-1: 64a42a709ec01cf1becdd34f82907bf11a281692 SHA-256: 01a356770cb7b05cd8567fd39844e591dcc26ae5c63aa2d0d124b6755d636468
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV both strongly indicate maliciousness, classifying it as a phishing or trojan threat. The primary function appears to be redirecting users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://foulardfotografando.it/file/36765178833.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/43241721666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160975cef96ef3---fajewolumixiludigopilopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serwisnawigacji.pl/userfiles/file/49340131118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7nh6v1a3a6hc095d5lj2lk229c/fakigekajunavakunenavuxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridainvestment.cz/files/file/bubiwumadufunedawosatogiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c06795ccb4007a99167b5ca6b6c5adb/6122128092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d0ef9e5d2f9ffe4c60f12ded01aa842/48824459286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5e0736c58c3873fa1f581d3f24946f6/nimuwegipedefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e1e08860375df04f13a9dd470843eef/45131511863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/febufegemibujeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfcfcedb620---jalokixagenibuvisatim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba8fb478c463c5c4308d1472f218c5dc/bupuxavemogivar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-6-25/20210625200944776264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/bobabosogako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c098cadd109---82028531666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c740dca98f8---nekejividozifanojowipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumahbaruku.com/contents//files/kakapafebabujulibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d6b50caaa2---27137792897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=148+lbs+to+kgPDF 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_off0000fd1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD1E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011530.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11530 15728 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6fedb440ad193b9bfd62f7f8b02b297a6fac4d2d8a7f1db457aff33f8f085d
font_02_sfnt_off00013daa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DAA 10168 bytes
SHA-256: 469b33abf43b778a50e48b18ba0cfd2b0644a698114355ebbd352e5f7e9eec10