Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01a6ef46331d3627…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 15:26:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 206caef94ae44a43d1c8fd5216279c47 SHA-1: 8863141e133dee365e9f5af3c1c50050cda837e1 SHA-256: 01a6ef46331d3627a78751f73d7c4faa26a3f347b75f85c9fbfcc9d32e8059c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a tactic to obscure the true malicious destination. The presence of these link farms indicates an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

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://poongdung.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210719_B1E2BF1623ABAD4F.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b8dee53465e---74196328437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibinetweek.ru/userfiles/file/nojudalupes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenornaments.com/uplds/file/11868853325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jysunshine-hotel.com/up_files/file/kigomebolebob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khachsanmyngoc.com/upload/files/78588193967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubensova16.cz/files/file/xabolebovimiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b47c554701e---86059744941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olivier-frey.ch/user/web/file/84456791462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c502cf4ea6cd7f1da63168e916544e1/96191717622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pm5j918bsj42qsr2ni4s1t3btl/87574026419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iphonerepairservice.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/xiraxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wisewood50th.com/clients/3/35/35ca2b70ae131fa39667c240906a3fe4/File/ziribewadojumogub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/90420342938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blokhol.com/upload/files/56970527766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anshan56.cn/userfiles/file/1630085023356672394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro-elec.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xolajedupivisika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed71cf024e---sofedal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/wixitovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/63557198314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldapa.eus/files/galeria/files/84452302931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ac41e23cb914a591048c40a8e325b9c/70022070792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochisushi.nl/survey/userfiles/files/90610470892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gr-chem.com/upload/files/37430516170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01f6995f963747e572f3cd732b6b77a9/13462576912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=princesas+disney+para+colorir+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://pro.ovh.net/~tribuene/images/banque/file/4286509979.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_off0000d16e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD16E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e980.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE980 17384 bytes
SHA-256: 425eff82a9256cad5d98827bee5e7638d68cd2894cb3efdaab5f57785bb3e3db
font_02_sfnt_off00011676.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11676 10632 bytes
SHA-256: e2a9ed30e08d4aa90e350734f92ce753c1ee58c21cafb3c5dd5d68628bafd3b1