Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01bdf63f99e4a94a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.7 KB Created: 2021-10-03 15:53:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 4b9fd2bb5af2990c0f5bb702a673c6cb SHA-1: 709e9d36881329afa94023ed0626276022800fd2 SHA-256: 01bdf63f99e4a94ac86b64144647225244340d1cff25f508ce3de20240dad02c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host or redirect to malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports the interpretation of the document as a link farm designed for malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://firsatpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xuwifada.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nslogisticservice.com/userfiles/files/91558931216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f345bf2942---65629574608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614bb30400986---xesusugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindhuinvestment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tukerisogadipajusof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloezoloto.ru/userfiles/file/15229555458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/48846488199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guerrazzi.info/userfiles/files/sagapaduzemukivelokavuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139004dc1ef8---36405847580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landbondcorten.com/attachment/file/d6f202ea0fb88729fd0234744d551003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsijiqing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2021/0911/e13ef7e33dc73ab913acd73cd042413f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nollve.com/img/editor/image/file/39869082063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smarttechsolutionukltd.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/97359484873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://execdentalclinic.com/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/refuler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softtox.com/new/userfiles/file/bafovuguvenimaledudis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suruburi.net/mm/file/43725310096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.net/FCKeditor/file/54222594963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms2oke.com/contents/files/ketevopugufawotaxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuahuyhoang.com/media/ftp/file/gabatuxaxapananixerujeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeopathyhk.com/files/49732046005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=slow+cooker+stoviesPDF 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_off0000ac32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC32 16720 bytes
SHA-256: 231920a1669371a0bfdf87c4927fdcc973f2d0146ce9a9b6ab32d3a0e347548b
font_01_sfnt_off0000d695.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD695 10276 bytes
SHA-256: 83cfaf26673b521bd956138097b1cd8f29c60d3aef3cff9dcc1afe9607012cb5
font_02_sfnt_off0000ede4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDE4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1