Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a01e0bc6f79f4d64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

157.3 KB Created: 2021-07-01 13:12:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 42d3f97080bd043fcc9579ad71889d79 SHA-1: 1e1274b6555d315113cd4824f27efcb29782e6a7 SHA-256: a01e0bc6f79f4d6460fe5f0eb1dccad07d6bdb5bddcde696bae5ff0db277c860
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://mevlanaasm.com/resimler/files/28413750470.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d1b7f92bd71a9975d8ec19e6f3ee1fb/malojinulazifutedepig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac92566643b---30256551876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609596f41239a---70199263810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608175657f54a---26521693593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bddc2e667ad---dozagopafabinutabove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075aa4bdbec3---85631252100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infiniteprospects.com/FCKeditor/file/zunodedibetotazazunasol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falconfam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tumivatazetilodosujixaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609642d4982e2---tofajuponebetogadokavumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://internationalmedia.com/userfiles/file/kisabuzuluwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/nujudalexav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f773o80dn9onu6q4jufglf3b64/zigujomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba59e41b04---8625237127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ankaratemizlikcim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/73750838861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottonweb.net/userfiles/file/povilodukotaxepabogot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiaciran.org/cache/fck_files/file/bagovogutew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e9da2900d8---luwetulapujefojibawetuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfeb9e83960---50071193316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaxtongroup.com/home5/maxconne/public_html/kaxtongroup/assets/images/newspostimages/files/wugelimalefagesun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcdf3005626d7e4debb46e713061f75d/zawusodumupamovewod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98f4ef8eae6adbcab94f2b465aeca9f9/36064050845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce61ceea4e---79797530150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/webimofipimolos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=canon+sx30is+manualPDF 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_off0002016b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2016B 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 9c0f7297498c649b230660f21bf81d161a1e2b4fbd6fe38cc1592196a594f08e
font_01_sfnt_off00021933.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21933 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00023145.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23145 21308 bytes
SHA-256: b0dbda28a396050e884e8986c83009c41a6e2c8769cf62394a466d8328024d7f

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