Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a01d1aebcdb687e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-06-23 09:52:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 34eff9f888670d849a2a183157e83f7a SHA-1: 699efe1447afa4113b12f9481a026fe0b96723b9 SHA-256: a01d1aebcdb687e7c256278b19aaf5940c17e543c56136f2ecf324e5f4efc8ac
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to trick the user into downloading a secondary payload. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://mtecommerce.it/public/news/file/topomisifejililom.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b75e758bd---27083575399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1c6076c9330a7e2f065413bd2404aa1/binanagiwapobuxejop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160887b15e8d74---jagofakamagej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carsongrad75.com/clients/3/35/35717660c32d3dd9b0ffde8f33a19d23/File/fenegajababijisesegasezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607401c629439---64303791925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4a97986d85---40540445330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/rupigeromoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gilleyfamilyreunion.com/clients/6/6c/6ce887ac6ce8bbcacf46524318b1f362/File/rekidupet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074927c1852c---kixomajexuxizapawapurazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://predit.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fikuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1da2068d63dfea09742ceaacb62f92ed/47705182289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1a15acf11f---foxasolap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44a2b86073e6eae5234634374e7066db/rofavifesutonobumagurel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a531d30165d---tisotubewifomana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ankaratemizlikcim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/72640604879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/zipidole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a40edb6efe03342d4056be5ab085c61/60464906586.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/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+print+pdf+smaller+file+sizePDF 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_off00011c7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C7D 5292 bytes
SHA-256: 7bc6418272f3fede54a8aa441c28ebcbf637b8ade43472ce392f15e46d8b9d16
font_01_sfnt_off00012e7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E7D 10988 bytes
SHA-256: bb903c88f4897606221d887fcd3114123e7ffcc01e4a5a3257f5a2679358c350