Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c01a5f1e8600b86f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-09-15 17:50:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8052e63e83a982cd2ec9b2c72feb8b35 SHA-1: 5caf4f224373e91be85117ff37eb15c51b5078e8 SHA-256: c01a5f1e8600b86fb2c01ad5dbcdbcbd35d5d7727d0f911929df636b51c2c0bb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://yljczl.com/uploadfile/20210910153838501.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83566673966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://collegium-connect.nl/ckupload/files/25062418951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://langumeistras.lt/i/File/sanebebofigidazolidunug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a41240046c64c727c3918e635a4ee898/musuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generaldistco.com/images/file/16116967490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/39044968014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161368f25786c6---81680397842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhtindesign.vn/uploads/image/files/19391593806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellamy.tw/uploads/files/202109070848556441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gilboamedia.com/userfiles/file/laferufezinasujumexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgs-on-track.com/uploads/misc/files/sodulisovexaxumobuvozugag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bc-arman.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wajel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hublihorse.com/uploads/userfiles/files/fijejurofofurugixenepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyjcincottalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/86872315779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonntag-immobilien.lu/userfiles/files/nogik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precisionsurgicalworks.com/alpha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20001639817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0286869143.com/editor_images/files/78550682103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134c210e2e80---19749652510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2319376128e8f7b9fea0d371b188d97f/xefopatigenopojobegubugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecoevopublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/lanim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2r-auto.com/uploadfiles/file/2021091416340673499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-lamps-rali.eu/files/file/gusotifopavekaxatode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solis.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/livuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skolicka.eu/foto/images/file/tatomuniposi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=add+app+to+android+home+screenPDF 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_off0000f218.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF218 17860 bytes
SHA-256: 44e2a8ae52d5b6b97f4fd329befea9843e158214a69d30375661ce0954aedad3
font_01_sfnt_off00012057.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12057 10716 bytes
SHA-256: db3381cc4b1d3f66f995241f8f6fb8031c0a2a33a16ab03e01dcfcd0f12a4930
font_02_sfnt_off000138c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1