Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01e9948d4cfe9b7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-06-23 19:55:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f140b7e457486f43000b96b25ebe1766 SHA-1: c99faf4802f7031bfec1de6de5aab783a4111d8e SHA-256: 01e9948d4cfe9b7b5fe58ff1ab3a9cd7fbd21f2687d088c81f8c16df1f80eec0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to statistical formulas, likely intended to trick users into clicking the embedded malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=formula+of+mean+median+mode+for+ungrouped+data PDF link annotation
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7fe67f4d03c82ad7f55e5bf1bb038f5/jozevupidir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab74d3b34d460410283e47eb14f91600/rowotuvinurazopoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/923b9b310cf7bd9c0452e6d7a440d93a/tawojawibivoluwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb8484c1192---78188932830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f6ee8652a---91383299047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/vugexijevajox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebco.ru/images/file/zofezedevajebopazufovid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b55bd353d---97829968363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citysuji.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84335800171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tnrm5e5emq7fkt0r74utmrdlv4/kabalogufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99mjop9bkuuse1lhagirkqd2f4/21122654630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljazeerahpetroleum.ae/userfiles/files/87730116094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfafig2t70j00khfcb78trvc35/vafilen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d4a08c0117---24376165344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karthikeyanjayaram.com/userfiles/file/14587717847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f8c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8C4 5140 bytes
SHA-256: ce9f79d4109c4c5aaf724313d2aa4db60fa83082cc0cb818c738a75a4a103856
font_01_sfnt_off00010a2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A2E 14196 bytes
SHA-256: db70c4b787ab3183c5635664a16282596de2fec22f6b21f9616e14df08587cb4