Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01c4363b6f98f5ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.5 KB Created: 2021-10-04 12:04:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: f5d13e853ace3be5d89d4326b2fc97fe SHA-1: cd61d893e1b2c6cecc3151e5c4e86c5c692c22ea SHA-256: 01c4363b6f98f5eef443a4ebd5d9995a1729c3e387cd5e78eae78f0812eebe2a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are identified as link farms on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links further supports a malicious distribution pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=types+of+deterrence PDF link annotation
    • http://schokoladenfontaene.de/idata/xewijirixefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://systematix.pl/userfiles/file/59720975740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9y.bfage.com/upload/files/20210923112341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18238642643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chargooshads.com/images/upload/files/nogodokovilemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d36fa3f9c4---36111170010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://przyklejki.pl/userfiles/nigapedigek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles/file/poridosejezonigekosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gapoom.com/upload/fckeditor/file/joralipifazaxowogebun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149cda8295c9---61740211899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brune-schmuckwerk.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84497362400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e93cdf8cd2753797767b5307f3a2fccf/ketefigipurinuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vcvscr.cz/www/www/fckphotos/file/dumejanajasapurudova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teacherandtraining.com/coj_u/KK/userfiles/files/70244976470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddhaart.in/userfiles/file/56325570357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161513c5178ba2---kototenisawevafuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e4ea6bb1cc---91640314581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.temaricerca.com/entry2013new/admindia/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24939749707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traiteur-troyes-mariage-buffet-aube-10.blaisot-traiteur.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53306814405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khojedu.net/userfiles/file/difamu.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_off00011687.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11687 20848 bytes
SHA-256: d7b4e67fe801101b6cdbd14d7a604d3f295c379eb7cd5e4b58666e08b1a49f5b
font_01_sfnt_off00014d5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D5A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016571.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16571 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 7e47080c3796f0f34754d73504f400fe1d74e20ac8fd6157b90318eff55561e2