Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01ed8c1303459e43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-06-27 23:57:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e5e894b318d6a4e01fcd89234d406d0e SHA-1: 1e55898e086008e54972a95977f718f4e709fb0e SHA-256: 01ed8c1303459e430776b2414a6541daa75121945bb2eb470741d57a1a8663a2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content is likely a deceptive lure, such as a fake invoice, to encourage clicks. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://aprendanow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49a5315d6a7268e8e68d4ee150b64219/99252154640.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4120c41bfac3af2f4dd62983225b9a0/27173219259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae13004ec4a---lizobapitixanotovefokuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnibat.net/uploads/archivos/xasukaxiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ldbell1965.net/clients/85689/File/dipomepejewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finproekt-msk.ru/userfiles/file/83829908914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72060c7e46c3f4a5868b90b8ba201114/xilibatajuxixoruvudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d84c311f3e9c0b4c87e5db04c6a7fd9/10755244543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vjabdm1crs7iag2b7qc3iijj9g/wewojojuvipuwagerim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cae66f1d0e---kuwunujofapitapexexon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/kokulowapiviji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c793a1f0f---wamaxoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b43c7074596---bipabin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://market-oborudovanie.ru/upload/file/38130624366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nicenpos.com/userData/board/file/pusezin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/lemamamavutun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodcomputers.ro/2664/uploads/50687767867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741c866e886---kinafanewutokupale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qlinairnv.be/userfiles/file/39481254838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0bd8129331---65833615062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/jejemiweli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tat6t02ab3qa7f8fj60gtudek6/mewutunalulafam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://madopin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xipuvov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimtuong.vn/isc/public/files/fckupload/file/56749008136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49f2cf84355734ea3fb1368630eb2f22/kufolefizuzuwoluwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/9576355988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f49ed43b2---tuxiwoziwedutogifes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=one+day+endingPDF 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_off0000bddd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDDD 15452 bytes
SHA-256: 78ec936ba1a9d830451a6ede0ca3047b693743ecee7c25127292495ffacc03b0
font_01_sfnt_off0000e50e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE50E 10032 bytes
SHA-256: 46d9ad8e6e6f26405f596fa194960d18c192d8cd00f84b6888cb7a97fc9678b7
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB4A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1