Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c01abba9872f698c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 19:08:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d2c42248d8462219242d482b1eb50796 SHA-1: 1c0acdf990f3016dde852a684aecb144b0fa0fcb SHA-256: c01abba9872f698c213c44d02f0dca798818cacf45a2f06af623c392417186aa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Multiple URLs point to compromised WordPress uploads or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links strongly implies a phishing or malware distribution vector.

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://kvarkeno56.ru/userfiles/file/23010664869.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hbisan.com/userfiles/file/7553529417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trisad.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/koxuwaxebasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dwallacelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/22624965151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quiltingacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/23470390739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://distant-property.ru/fck_editor_files/files/6751106906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132d9d1bad8e---kipegonakuzorovokorefozaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tysons-cafe.com/uploads/files/zejover.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/manikoxekumisinegigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dbeea99e62---71976151315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csn-alliance.com/data/files/palojutudodabukinoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bc0fdf508a5afc43c3b8dd130a072bf/fojimizos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-housing.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3499820528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firesecurity.sk/userfiles/file/86387318052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iqmuseum.mn/uploads/files/pemosivosezujirewimasewel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ktgroup.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92336142270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canoto.us/Images_upload/files/wavurojizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/xuvidekuwoboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ebb6fb69b8---25215453796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zochrot.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64249641028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f7b86bfe23a1c6a100f82cdf209be66/46669062287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electriccityusa.com/images/fck_uploads/file/jomevifazora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://budapestpainter.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gogikefuxinifoginol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofagiani.eu/userfiles/files/topulejolevufito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mbzl-pro.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/sipijikikof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=open+the+your+phone+companion+app+on+your+phonePDF 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_off0000dc0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC0A 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 44abfafb9d7fa298cc8b1ad089f64955b949d546dae572e0fca288d93004a749
font_01_sfnt_off0000f452.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF452 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010c64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C64 18236 bytes
SHA-256: ce575412f7d02e85a24d8c2e30bb86a418b9632e31dcd0cb5447195ed2ad171f