Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01f99344535c996c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-05-27 17:42:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 399e34cac743dd9e5d3d27f50396d763 SHA-1: d1d271d9611e1019c688815545054a59abd4c2be SHA-256: 01f99344535c996c31ef6e33b299a6936958cfbc2e33a7da1065dc37f89e9078
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b17b839415---vumolowudoviwajupusu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/90007854368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/sobuwegijiberov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e1185e9fff---81411470884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file/%5C/7416042146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pablohernandes.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f5b0592e1d22863cd737fccfaca4ad1/bixagikumiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e8deed06bd5f5dd703f104e80835059/59750449196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71688d5e9a301801b991fe5d37f4cac3/vodugetebanawik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b69788cfeeb1fa14e75633378a4308df/93943558347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c9cf2ef63---sosolelizoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1647hevcgjeu01lg80qc9iplj/51166728242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c3eca8dc0dfe1fe1de631560658c123/lufix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/95858032884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iominneapolis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d941fb717d48e0e632ce3f919a3977e7/lelufakufuxesuvumol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+write+an+email+igcse+english+as+a+second+languagePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d899.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD899 5408 bytes
SHA-256: 5b4425ef4eb3ef1148b95ab9ec130fc46ebfb7f0624d59f9a82d4ec02d27b30b
font_01_sfnt_off0000ead7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAD7 10260 bytes
SHA-256: cabb8be0d97a7f59cba149b49552cae795cbe30cb20b988a42510dcac13f2bf0