Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01dd67089f6a221e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.0 KB Created: 2021-06-30 14:50:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 07296ed1a1bf1ca1c96030ab5299fb90 SHA-1: be26d3b0e974bf4fa1a89cbd50eee7c261551a21 SHA-256: 01dd67089f6a221e817e1675b1f09c08b15cc9798abfe4dc951488436f96067f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and points to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating it's designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a link farm used for initial access via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bsc+2+year+zoology+book PDF link annotation
    • http://arabic.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zukefigovolidozikul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l99o29kvh49siu2966gvo2igf1/39499723668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160890627c21a9---tanokuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/34139643542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventologia.com/userfiles/files/limigaroxadezasavuraji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f375b057ddac6a505ce78112fa3a1e8/3948583283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://55thocscompany.com/clients/62662/File/89988764994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609086c96bdc4---bisajubizexot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210508004616127430327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20og66nqptgc0p2srfa8eqqt00/54317715360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/lanuluzefozez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3v0mthp5nser60l2di3qiknqc1/37893838119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9355b37f15af6b921f1f0b27c6cb6b6c/77611801483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/32856346411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609422d8b60ca---divesufezeredazejuwapupot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0cc9319cd---58474725013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congchungnguyenlieu.com/uploads/files/56797204579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bab188c2813f72399460b26ad31f100/31686525121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769f6e08e85---40072250151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99a924cbfaa58e3bc4e7501aa6202164/xuwabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mujeresenmovimientoplus.com/userfiles/file/40952084155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmkonsult.cz/userfiles/file/zakuv.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000101f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101F4 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 05467635a99ad4f6b6b53df6055f1d492081efde0a157f4cdab2a52723aadd82
font_01_sfnt_off00011ad5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AD5 17172 bytes
SHA-256: c7ef023da20a2429788d972f48da2fefe3002f7d3c4fad95206f5771979def6e
font_02_sfnt_off000147bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147BB 16068 bytes
SHA-256: 6d636ebcb28a43c11a0b96216d988d0aaa25e428b847d4e039b2a2a6b6e27b6d
font_03_sfnt_off00015cdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15CDB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1