Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01bca632006db312…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:33:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: afe532f303936ea252033df391948501 SHA-1: 285c81ffa1c847d31b9b991f8068677130a7fca7 SHA-256: 01bca632006db312e59119a14ec5d8fcd345bf858dea8352542ff82b59cda26c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used to distribute malware or conduct phishing. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the overall structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://bmsorganica.com/userfiles/file/6356877275.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a834b941978---zidilako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moda-minulosti.cz/docs/momin/file/govubuwamovajeduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balone.net/_upload/file///vuburebovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qus9o1ntjqcvretrhegjbkf7f5/87572574725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dht68525st45c5inplfga2qa5/36243251965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160871aa736d71---17770362679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairvoyantinfotech.com/demo/images/kuduziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4456b45ce6---14636349674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fea082c6a59---suxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e15a922c5649a89937c579cc7877c1d0/rutazixikuvikupiderekiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1ee79cdea0---25803055038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/sekenivupubovakilisolopaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://au-coeur-du-temps.com/userfiles/file/31232417767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sentralperdana.com/file/74440846791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ecaa130e52---rozupowovimuridize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720f4bb695a---lepexafapozoduxawesolaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlproduct.com/userfiles/file/12796040945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d8eb5286e---kozilagezevuzalokepeliri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cff9177ee62---vezijuremivovepegemavoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608f0a6078974---36010923389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210529033144532770252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=nueva+correspondencia+alejandra+pizarnik+pdfPDF 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_off0000dcf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCF9 20440 bytes
SHA-256: e79d08e2906c2b453b0324ac382d0b911c2ae450d6ebfeb3941772ca0b4881fd
font_01_sfnt_off00011187.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11187 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001299e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1299E 10940 bytes
SHA-256: c39603500024af02509e424bf500ef75b19ee9058ca0f902ca30af4f92ebd17f