Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01c85bea7646b19d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-19 00:58:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 1645f3ac1ba35ae2c438c2bb27443048 SHA-1: 83c8b864b05f8295325afa1816e8927eb629c704 SHA-256: 01c85bea7646b19d4148763ab49ecae0894a3b62d632958d99e1913b4c5d3716
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF that contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO spam. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting the analysis of specific user lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://serbanindustrialconstruct.ro/uploads/files/14777063668.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614263e5df043---ginoxonuvivulune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokozentrale.de/idata/60030654787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flammerouge.ch/userfiles/files/55289190182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobre-jaja.com/Upload/file/xugeselaxezerodozomedafov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613834c837e16---73188621389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maremania.net/img_pagine/file/buvonuximowepetetesilafit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fluffy-chins.com/images/file/93009701984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wedding-box100.com/uploads/files/202109150228529933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapa-technika.cz/UserFiles/File/mirodujixeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sintjorisparochie.nl/userfiles/file/nesigegudebite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161420d5304e1b---23383861837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luatkhangthai.vn/upload/fck/file/zunapedebena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lockerova.eu/admin/upload/documents/25875257270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careersourcechipola.com/files/public/kinawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lazdynumokykla.lt/userfiles/file/42088930035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-abroad-travel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/82997261900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveworldtogether.com/datas/files/94298732885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biogenetec.tw/image/files/20210911_234858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150002.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210916222508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dottoridegregorio.it/public/file/ditosorojekiwiwuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139f7a456d9a---momotagixatakujaziferuliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oneworldkarate.com/fckeditorimages/userfiles/file/waduva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.pl/userfiles/file/32209643384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinosteelcode.com/filespath/files/20210917062053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=old+cricket+games+for+androidPDF 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_off0000dea1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEA1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6B3 17492 bytes
SHA-256: 527da060a2d30dae27b4d657fd6aeb1ba0350602b4a2fd3a28297d545d56542a
font_02_sfnt_off000123f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123F6 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 9d1a5875b742346ebb04305ea325f2d730b80ed63215a13630804a3b8ca3ef42