Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01ceea2b0fd8cebc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-26 22:12:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ec8003f8c7cdc1b639aae022fddfe56d SHA-1: c7e6bd1887c1302ca5ed6a23220777d5b6aeef2a SHA-256: 01ceea2b0fd8cebc3c0e69784de6c5436a6bb49c3a72b36fced6c7034e9ad132
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs indicates a potential phishing or SEO manipulation tactic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+disable+emergency+call+on+lock+screen PDF link annotation
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e23f77ecfda458cc479c3ad1afc6e42/20220616915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prtl.pl/userfiles/file/99146150046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22510583638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133b56302712---kaxezubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161345f475b438---jenedikuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iranjobex.com/cache/fck_files/file/lawexemikononupofadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b14a3e7727f40fc7875975987351151d/10404814371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/94767283924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibangthuaphatlai.net/uploads/files/25947273263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayepnuocmia.vn/data/ckfinder/files/nizuguse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jessie.vn/images/ckeditor/files/2056887950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fdd6eb6238---66809608680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614973bdab2ab---7062194250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zagazzo.com/userfiles/file/digoduxepuxugal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinyardim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/61083605557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gotoko.com/cmsv2/upload/files/muwejonivagutol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomax.shop/filespath/files/20210902091009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monthclean.com/uploads/files/202109151938396018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/tigozolirewugodexezewus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioferrato.it/userfiles/files/febewonuvokefugotaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hantverksakuten.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8255620669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carbonelite.ru/file/52723485309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnokorea.com/userfiles/file/4183060265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgreenery.nl/images/file/29978266406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radanhorse.com/resource/files/vufebisiwaxukogula.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_off0000b5a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cdb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDB3 17804 bytes
SHA-256: 33248c885f66bf10ef60c6432ad26d5414c3d5b7375b7d989f89957a2ae792a1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA70 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 11ff5c2b0b838a55aa2a4a9bcb286387b2b4870ae2211d7e15737f8f0bda328f