Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b01bdd6321eccfca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-07-14 10:02:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 3af373c2dcfed75c6544ff4097561830 SHA-1: aff53b52cd07dea635d9dcadd6efac2b6ab5eb87 SHA-256: b01bdd6321eccfca37d32f003c23e58fb8311fc953356bee07d9da2319a52968
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/jefuxuzoxotozenurori.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://szpital-sulecin.pl/images/fckfiles/file/37815862316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b247b12e48a---90330013045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080701dd70c9---wivefadadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60f55d8482869c01ac9f5c239b14b9c5/97712200756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/5165004474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oceanstatevolleyball.org/clients/879495/File/vakutixufaxumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ec98de66cdc84759d46ac4377f34488/tiregidibufavot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b43a16c68d5---38375251937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607687dbddb7c---sadulosajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/zafamovurixakiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nensi.si/upload/file/48522208548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78c7163d9a28eb1dd548412f7d07c1a5/70426804801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/peresepup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuvanluatdanang.com/upload/ck/files/49959166454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/138ed861027fd6dad8bbb125417779c8/siwol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaitosushisb.com/uploads/files/dekepagesisowuzeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822ea0bbf83---remuzem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/zafipedubiwugud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfd52646c2ed7d81e4641a1ba0479aa5/wetuvepipeguwugemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078240dec6ee---64382766222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bptramptour.pl/files/file/96495522942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=definition+of+base+according+to+bronsted+lowryPDF 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_off0000f0cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0CC 10992 bytes
SHA-256: f840ddd7f8d208fe079ef33b8bdf457e1ba187972448c32a105e718c0ab35b51
font_01_sfnt_off00010a51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A51 16952 bytes
SHA-256: 78573fa1d7d4a61c981227ec446cda86a3cca257ef055a76b8a29d5d2a0f3f94
font_02_sfnt_off000136d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1