Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01bd73fe5f017a44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-15 03:21:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: fa22dd6fcae073aca93271b169052800 SHA-1: e0f829a28472a5b3d8821ca4fcfc253ceef3e382 SHA-256: 01bd73fe5f017a443149c8e3feaba312d4d9e8862fb10aca21dc662f982f6d6b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The document body is largely unreadable binary data, but the presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic findings strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to external, untrusted sites.

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=today+tv+movies+list+tamil PDF link annotation
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136be7b8be88---movejuxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanchariglobal.com/userfiles/file/110448983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajarnveerapong.com/UserFiles/file/loresuralozedabejom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.org/contents/files/92919876854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/58444444815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161411aabaf22d---7706993155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a04c2beb34---vimituwakojelibarijosebok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kernenshepler.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/19058475355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoomkish.com/basefile/zoomkishcom/files/tapuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomuraca.eu/userfiles/files/25672064571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161402c4e28dfc---834218890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artenika.pl/fck/file/25611397602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watertorens.nl/userfiles/file/sojafisovedevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inmaabiladi.com/userfiles/files/6758694025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a5b12188a9955b2f598ba48c2ee134a/61176659494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stijsr.com/userfiles/file/furavizokenedugalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragonspond.com/uploads/files/kekegizupulegip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-castiglioni.com/userfiles/files/83887502655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15449010.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_C6AB6F78368530AA.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinaia-vik.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/jadek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotacri.com/userfiles/files/kiwabewava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brothers-music.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nawetawirunumun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgrappresentanze.eu/userfiles/files/memuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///202193235171739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136a359a647d---28816140814.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_off0000e037.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE037 18208 bytes
SHA-256: ebbe68c3128cf7ff03f25d03817759986f70888753b954c4258062234c9011f4
font_01_sfnt_off00010fc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FC8 10348 bytes
SHA-256: 7db7df290d879a5c7233422357f20bf89ca8e3969a40e818ecbfdc7b5899ed7d
font_02_sfnt_off00012732.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12732 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1