Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a01d3e08715ce3b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.6 KB Created: 2021-06-18 12:51:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 16fcab7576330910c0005c740cf210af SHA-1: b25a53f7fa3d3aa393b03fd3a6df12f95addaf3e SHA-256: a01d3e08715ce3b78971cbbad66c7c7ad492a183f10b223960da680ca865dbd9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations. The document body, despite being heavily obfuscated, contains elements suggesting a lure, possibly disguised as a birthday greeting, to encourage clicks on these malicious links.

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.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0113766337---xifomekobezepogojoruz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a58c935b38---827985746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69ced5f5de7cdf6d8c992a493216da5a/9092427898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/dixulagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://familienbilstrup.dk/userfiles/file/nofekixuzixeloxejozug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlajobinator.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/53319191630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e98d801fa8---1799359047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba3e2e6dfe6---nezadefofosorafimorilom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160824759cabbd---78639303354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2ded8080fc0f7157e5b42d61fbfa368/deviki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c024199d9---rodamivebimefemanoxirugif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pune-india.info/userfiles/file/tofol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b59499c410---31529475846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6696ebc7f7c09bc9bf64ee4d2f4a5ca/kusel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/57491070961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/544abc429f06a3a1fa5eb2ac60024f14/nexekupefutigadujavife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a17dd195466---32569506923.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/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=happy+birthday+waqar+cakePDF 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_off0000b557.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB557 5436 bytes
SHA-256: 28284ee02a60be57d35cb853b01c65ab7455afa70917ebc1b8a8f832330c2a54
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7D6 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 6ef3932faf1d9b4a3bee281a1f626305b3f6a922b67c639b1ac29b5d9a497bac