Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01b1f655b255d997…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 00:30:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: b55c1566b296a9b8e57ed650021800a5 SHA-1: 1bf0f190f247e7bea55db6ab0ea3bad115dc169c SHA-256: 01b1f655b255d99758aa97632a72c54673ac7863fa17e1a149e51474368f4896
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document's structure as a link farm suggests it aims to lure users to malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://starlightcelebrates.ca/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/67367388047.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fee097d8d7132087c4c424680b0669d/bevepetabosugonoxado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homenet-spb.ru/userfiles/file/66773817708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b61f3d7945f---nagipiziboti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.netcorp.hu/data/editorfile/70514101592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebiocell.com/uploadfile/file///2021061214244355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asi-filter.pl/files/file/raviwomopufejigokedovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/wobupozugujaloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d4c3359b5---82087394829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9tt1k618svbj2154t28pr9g022/relagib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac8b4f5a75a---75281542941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toskov-yordanov.com/userfiles/file/3232322254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608530732a919---61493626336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belgium-ex.com/images/blog//file/88551456943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e85e5aae46---46139324133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c9944333f---95829011474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1hhnd8ibkqpkuifr9juh4eanfo/tekudisoxifabesutav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmprogetti.it/userfiles/files/molabigujuduzasirej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/559318366089a44561a9e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.celso.org/download/jowukadotomitananajajajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/43111349573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rmgp2fgiibhqjep6ctljin1u6l/dosogilaxesub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/medasurazepadulinuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4d844d12ba---tifiwivetavizitudafub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contact-house.com/fckeditor/upload/file/7586141934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=why+is+avatar+the+last+airbender+not+an+animePDF 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_off00010095.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10095 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 662573cbfc22fe0fac4032fa65463ff06f33079d0739738a8b1ff49658515290
font_01_sfnt_off00011963.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11963 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013175.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13175 16984 bytes
SHA-256: 0300638bc581a4c24d53bec23d95f47fa950c1cadb4bcc8ba785742cca2a5e18

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