Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01cc61538908cd09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-07-08 01:14:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 52dcf1d43976a4167d7e648353bbbd1c SHA-1: bf2166db59f94c0632d690e993d0f514d55fea20 SHA-256: 01cc61538908cd09990bc7bdeb3b0d250d9837c5d0efa1c0c9c9810f031c60f5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it likely contains a phishing or trojan payload. The document contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host and distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dipper+and+mabel+and+the+curse+of+the+time+pirates PDF link annotation
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/27966938359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elnativocoffee.com/silver/upload/files/72391430405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dad8lbvcol79dhscfq9btc6hvo/58448191561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0e6c455857---32045768523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coolingrealestate.com/your-home-cleaner/FCKuploads/file/89829414719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axiomestates.com/userfiles/file/fupij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/39301128645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f55ae70c03---93019570371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1efe0e5a7b7769553f3a8374168ecae7/81414355761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d384d8bff10---sudedaxikukiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608363a2c065f---16146887050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepokewave.com/uploads/files/davaxidatazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atraba-holding.com/userfiles/file/85019397647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de4920e35f0---sazugifadanodopesovido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aclamerica.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/rajane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/38664752943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62b5f94861ce66909a410fd40cad82af/zotazirofeguruvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i18lvuk8b76sv205tro9ufoll6/80315990897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c43db0b4a---98328797119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d64960543c4---710162327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.irrv.org/uploads/files/javefiweveligameliniwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tafgambiatours.com/userfiles/file/taxavufuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cs-web-design.de/ablage/userfiles/files/bonulexidumul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoncmswebsitebeheer.nl/files/editor/file/91674883469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703c3b1912c---pupifi.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_off0000d587.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD587 17512 bytes
SHA-256: dfa548baef31e4a330cc602fbce01f9e6961edfd14df0e29d91afc2bef0c91c5
font_01_sfnt_off000102e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102E7 11128 bytes
SHA-256: e023ca8709bc59d5601d98da2447f93780fc78cc127da365ffc503760aabfd54
font_02_sfnt_off00011c66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C66 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1