Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b01516e36960e4a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-13 21:11:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 936437609b5eb2dc2bf176374561ce76 SHA-1: 59c6924de8bd4ef1aa12e54f4ec020c80c4160a2 SHA-256: b01516e36960e4a5d84af90ba1851ae308ab1ff520955722df96d6fa0976b03f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest this PDF is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+emulador+de+android+para+windows+xp+en+espa%C3%B1ol+gratis PDF link annotation
    • http://dreamsurgerycn.com/ckupload/files/retinobavafug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healingtown.org/userData/board/file/nikinis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westhigienia.hu/editor_up/23917399171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136858ad1037---76990756463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castel.lu/userfiles/files/sikewosujew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnermind.cz/images/files/rexitajogulumus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xenangheli.vn/public/files/lemeruligizuganaged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushi-belovo.ru/files/wazuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angerdress.store/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ribamavojexetuwavuwosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1agcmh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64611558962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/60645067723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613409a034229---kixugasudapobufenuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baust.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42450169725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saiprogetti.net/userfiles/files/bafepewazaxovesosivozop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///suzezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ydis.kr/userfiles/file/051215279597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/87270298020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130410e45007---bowevivovisowoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b491eb7b48498b6a07eb775cfbe70426/suzojemisevir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rnjmqc5qhhedfmuhcd8k2ct6la/zoropelinolato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosesrealtyhomes.com/userfiles/files/buwaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xingyeknitting.com/userfiles/files/kudowujurinozujozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolkataangikar.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94646120744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.net/data/filestorage/upload/files/41915562758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-9/file/9467669512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qlinairnv.be/userfiles/file/24805932483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festacontinua.it/public/file/vegofagigawetoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dd92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD92 19056 bytes
SHA-256: 278e156dfa0f8c78a491111a1c333fa3fc0b115383fff40095b2abbc62e7e53b
font_01_sfnt_off00010e88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E88 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001269f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1269F 11352 bytes
SHA-256: 5e7693f59fc106d983f9b2f7565ec6f9a6abf70b35d8f7dd85e2cffde0b220ba