Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01cb6c27f3ed24e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 08:44:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 40527c91b6b58bab8bd668caa9419d87 SHA-1: ec0180285e19f741e38e1c726b62f5018bc76809 SHA-256: 01cb6c27f3ed24e8244a0127933f7a551d8f37931bfc937a899c469b753a88b2
164 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. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, and uses a link farm technique to obscure its true purpose. The presence of a download button heuristic further suggests a user-driven download of malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c33abeb146---78465257271.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mikol-styl.cz/userfiles/file/betufejibagomomugotuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledson.ru/upload_picture/17249994003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podimercrm.com/img/files/tikumewojibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/rawepikevivesisufoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1htmp5ujsehm4lfheeva6213vf/fulesoxurezitidinigug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorapeyzaj.com/userfiles/file/lavabafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://postelezmasivu-brno.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fotinaxopiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketoanantamhcm.com/uploads/files/50634302894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a595fd29a09---35863511165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denprokhorov.ru/images/file/lajimamevebafelakojoded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuvuongcorp.com/luutru/files/kogowokidamer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blankheich.de/images/uploads/file/gazozogewiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8gegh4v0nqto04dl2q3pa1m7fv/5584022949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/ezimurur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-reutov.ru/upload_picture/file/dedemusigasobera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a89cd2be341---ditimor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techhssilverbuffs.com/clients/61416/File/demuzipikosironukiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salman-group.com/userfiles/file/zozovitobisuzeziwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094bcec8cd6f---61852533113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://standdominica.org/files/files/90932757773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vbclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f58e8fb14510363655d07c89f760aba9/36018085334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/5215552854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=dibrugarh+university+bca+syllabus+pdfPDF 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_off00011f07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F07 19304 bytes
SHA-256: 0fe508b0a3b7b3cb709bf76c4672ab39d3b48cdf99486dfd9079771a962744d6
font_01_sfnt_off0001522e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1522E 11200 bytes
SHA-256: db1531c3af198a6dfaf1a51ad640832ecd2702c79d80824ade41147f5b45011f
font_02_sfnt_off00016bfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16BFE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1