Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a01bf755f4f92715…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-08-25 12:23:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8e7d5a1a858d9854bfb41301c770238d SHA-1: 97e05f6411f57327bf68b8039a263dd858e355e5 SHA-256: a01bf755f4f927155e96ab66997c568be4259eaf24ef870ea866d42f6d8ab464
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF containing numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure suggests it functions as a link farm designed to lure users to potentially harmful destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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 http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aca22fa9a47---92091292727.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mutitar.com/user_img/files/gizunurutijivax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhbiotech.com/CKEdit/upload/files/figudusuzuxirajusimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e560d0ab36995ab975688f982e276f81/96740986491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamdard.com/hamdard/app/webroot/img/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71990569871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michaelwilliamslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/puketadijezupaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getampedmag.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/liwizesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/65415282707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vds-construct.pl/userfiles/file/gozorimobenafafakizajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzebrno.cz/userfiles/file/42467793195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maderas-navarro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vudugenofujevaviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50bd8e44530335908d362225ad38a924/jopukukaduduzibizidigako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-abroad-travel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/45204961451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mexvp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pagilefapebekolokugin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pjtbnglq9gqsvdum1ag1s7mcoj/tupodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65d28e2130f4e193588c1d2bb59ee68f/24108620698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lwim-ouargla.dz/ar/files/jizugadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banghenails.com/upload/file/98920683928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf94dd20ca3---37002043932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd022485f33d6885c6d8623dbc08bee0/nejaxevofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detskeihriska.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93346882043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d65a9ba41af610813400b331dd0464ac/421002356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb8039aa61---wetavezuluwedasimezijimav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/worinoxubevofakavodezev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exhibitionchannel.com/upload/40393329366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=convertor+xps+to+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_off0000e48d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE48D 16948 bytes
SHA-256: fdc917fca2a807143bd9780f9deb5206a9dc77c0550b3f53716e11b033ae17f4
font_01_sfnt_off000110a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110A0 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 26d3f28e88a7b41583fe0e5da429d4efa4e5e971e1f4702ac4f2005c6f33ec71
font_02_sfnt_off00012858.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12858 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1