Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01c7b1d8a32f30dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-06-22 19:11:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e14c2c90b05dccffb12d00d62829e78a SHA-1: 2033ce299fc974db6de40423264c696084b6d584 SHA-256: 01c7b1d8a32f30dde9d3292a76be2864b0ab9e0de0a5da2b7618fb9c04db259f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations used for hosting PDF files. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to a 'Hoffman blower manual', likely to entice users to click on the embedded links. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive use of external links and the nature of the heuristics suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hoffman+blower+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072690823cff---nisatijakixenarupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609409f286224---vudemub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kaamqqt7p8qg853b2bv856s17h/49398015019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/gidijakumogudifixikawav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d70d7ceaa0a15afc350bb78435cdcb2/bavawobemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhouzhuank.com/v15/Upload/file/2021618225106264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajajsports.com/userfiles/file/54183396323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ijdssymposium.eu/upload/vegajavamekikaralotodixok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkyoukais.com/Images/Media/files/91364340817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bbbc2a9561---15562066479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ca96fd65856d2e64eedff5a5a717532/lafidaziwuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721dc956590---65022092041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exmar.it/foto_fck/file/9146376015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca1309daa24---dasanodilafiwelegorij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD80 4928 bytes
SHA-256: 74c5572469a8eb173c1755f755b538eba1a8393df7ab9d993ca87e6ef59266c8
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE3B 13180 bytes
SHA-256: deadc839e47fbe0225b958abba739988d191c2abb1e1ad691e0ddbfa65b24b07