Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01acbd71df2d3628…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-08-28 02:45:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 3f3e362b614e7cf5778d7be8c59d05a7 SHA-1: 3516bbddbd8267b310036a02400d979bc9a03ffb SHA-256: 01acbd71df2d36283598b65e60227e77db3f3b8c399f8b68cfcf61b77ee67e5c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading further malicious content or visiting phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://miguktour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210823_90FE913FA788FC9C.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a28c2c4d85e0ea9200e7a243bf000a9/5581296469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77m9bfbs0vlrlh6vvdiuclecn3/manojaxeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qfuse.it/images/uploaded_files/ckfinder/files/1625595981_5782b738e6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609718bda929d---38724836302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e6b100ed3700f64d9dc872661b1dd58/wopaxalevaluregapubow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediasingrid.com/js/new/fckeditor/userfiles/file/tigoxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/op2rfvaa663lp14ir36latud26/xomorevelirufagivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d85c8470f79---rumabuwuwaxininiwidisub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestpokeya.com/uploads/files/93234788467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromatographvials.com/d/files/80478256451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc2dca98468---wajoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e16774290d7---xejezuxiwefutixisosazozel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://by-express.com/upfiles/editor/files/69814323636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tmtteks.com/files/707132967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://i-chat.tw/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31225886427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zionapostolicministries.org/uploads/file/15541030247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d2641178b---68838109136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eclickapps.in/userfiles/files/40455483800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210514081432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boathousebrokerage.com/userfiles/file/wimemapugerib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okud-istra.hr/userfiles/file/95205357930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creative-format.com/upload/editor/files/35817783537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de15e39157---kuwefetito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=using+the+word+literallyPDF 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_off0000cbb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3CA 16580 bytes
SHA-256: 59cc77f2602db797751ae65e5a7fc0fd354e58a56219c830443eacd8e2a05e7d
font_02_sfnt_off00010da6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DA6 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 91f68658faaff6d7bba7194b5e7cb7793124aca18eb9af2e4d7b9cbfcd413adb