Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01a6b115808a08fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 20:55:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a5b8d6fbe991507c82337355b974857d SHA-1: 5178ee6652f25b3d878f240fb96597ce28824570 SHA-256: 01a6b115808a08fb0088bb8ecf78272a0843035a74297bcd17a55701302c57c9
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 a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, lacking clear user-facing content but containing numerous embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99537f7433f44399d2a4ace93ce748ff/61953287080.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160850b5a26187---63109779208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8a1cc610f---fifezovolakil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b085871349---17210048943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franzoesischebulldoggen.eu/userfiles/file/wufofepevezifufafuzusutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad386fd224c---74485415761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-lovcen.me/userfiles/file/47573505990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a73fc89b324---valejetob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb905d6f047---22633582784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jirehenl.com/userfiles/file/082007425198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://austarpharma.com/upload/files/wizusinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ff767246f09b9d63fa8151379f65f18/93560827300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f80b79889---weduzujoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c60c52a575a---bozajuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aostavet.it/userfiles/files/povujuwarotuludi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c7c5b702fe338ef07a1c1bb7e4225f9/jebanilalenamuzuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e130a57df---fozimusorupakuxiwux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genericdiabeticteststrips.com/userfiles/files/tagigerizifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082df8f23b40---96138072343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0293759538b910ce1ca484d53a9857a2/tijijawedenujumefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021052818112173499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oryginalnedekoracje.pl/userfiles/file/denavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestaerospace.com/uploads/file/52788161793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021062415061973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=central+minimum+wages+2020PDF 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_off0000e9c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000101de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101DE 10788 bytes
SHA-256: a616daf53398f8275e4b2283a3b50707e3d7e914bbd63121450c01724544aad7
font_02_sfnt_off00011ad5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AD5 17120 bytes
SHA-256: 01f54f1cfb417a3a38e5c980a306e5b4b7c997832d0b8f247cb015454f572462