Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01c6cf725a607a70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.2 KB Created: 2021-08-04 15:29:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bb0c6d2ccb8f494a3e4268a9b587ea06 SHA-1: 910eb4f9312846c82a3d1decca341b43923b7fdb SHA-256: 01c6cf725a607a70ab12c5ca96dc43d4bdd04bd7f44c637c118783ca5c23e408
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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 http://dlzj.net/upload/files/20210630140601273795.pdf
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/rixetozekogurakowosaj.pdf
    • http://enotecagaribaldi.it/userfiles/files/wajuwusapakot.pdf
    • http://casaledellasignora.it/userfiles/files/16337834291.pdf
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bad78aa9660c7f5deb813d7b5a1cebb0/57289364079.pdf
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/fozuregotifopowajip.pdf
    • https://toromecanicorodeo.com/files/tupupevozanojukibejij.pdf
    • http://edgecs.net/documents/gukuzozunape.pdf
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c69fc6b3010---wobugirufabebuwulijegir.pdf
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097c1fa9c4e0---vagipu.pdf
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8033d4279c---zowubud.pdf
    • http://zubrcup.by/files/files/50246490854.pdf
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a168c665f94---wileregizipotopabofova.pdf
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf713c1740---95337097253.pdf
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c4e0baf33c---42984384862.pdf
    • http://digitalqwerty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jolugeridi.pdf
    • http://asvpp.fr/pdf/64853539725.pdf
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/tovowugevup.pdf
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071af487b025---57575474801.pdf
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4e508ad8a8---miguradutukopixipab.pdf
    • http://dokumsuzgec.com/userfiles/files/49795066259.pdf
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rc36o34b23ek5ggd52atuovpat/sipirus.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=hipobromito+de+calcio+formula
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011262.bin
04cdac076a3173ba6e6b1f32715f9e7db63d0f8d7face896cc78442d4aa9b569
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11262 10740 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012ad2.bin
f31b575235545cb32eebf0d20941d8bdc40ae98376e998551fbf4d281e29d4b3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AD2 18148 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001596a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1596A 16792 bytes