Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01e288708269b4fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:17:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: cf948e7f76273f56821c0c301ef39edf SHA-1: 861bfca241e0927a30e147bebec8ed67bb8cb723 SHA-256: 01e288708269b4fb2e1fe08fc2ab24aafaf4fa136af1bec83f4260bed3205ad9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware delivery campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://thermogroup.ru/uploads/files/niwuwebonejalepe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a481e05a7---41378222171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b23823ae46---waxalenofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bf0d128d176a263bf290b12d9f170ca/18464628136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coytex.net//ckfinder/userfiles/files/16125185393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soc-in.com/data/media/files/togawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/664e70qfc3q6p2etc801d9nlm9/10153356400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99edf2eace78803e739df1c0d9d40a6d/xekulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1a16cc5ec8---75630481590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbae1d23272---77879533083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgogs.com/mgfiles/file/vosoreguwefune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katour.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57409638647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kientrucphatloc.com/upload/files/66814552625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podlahypilat.cz/admin/file/90970811074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firewheels.pe/userfiles/file/45414554839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809728d9485---49203973477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1572b90f78d6ec43122333236e59d92a/gonezugenav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pescepiana.eu/userfiles/files/nurupup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609882ea35c6d---fafidojojesusavexegubapuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peterpan1996.it/userfiles/files/73613260754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.darvidproperty.com/news/file/fovafibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://au-coeur-du-temps.com/userfiles/file/gimodajepefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackshirts1961.com/clients/7/71/7137ee3fbd99c17d296746b31d66a47b/File/fabejum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.premiumtrade.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xerivira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=an+abundance+of+katherines+book+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_off0000e0b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0B3 18456 bytes
SHA-256: f3e2c31289b9d055e909c3f86850c57c1c0d73cbbeb0d26e5b5b9207528bd1ea
font_01_sfnt_off0001111b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1111B 10984 bytes
SHA-256: c0b77125f0990c76c4feb1bbfd170fcc08fecf082899792abb3739fde5f827ae
font_02_sfnt_off00012a6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A6A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1