Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d01f236915b58b56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 14:04:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: b1bc1b60ed664aff3256727096d4e449 SHA-1: 95d6ae87686b92fc1682c9a4c5c33ee75311b4fc SHA-256: d01f236915b58b5694bf04f057a95eb4e25cc87814f651b51d43dc49a681eb46
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with several heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Notably, some links point to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://leise.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fixazibijimujenog.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/12995718459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjerkelunden.org/content/files/userfiles/file///6139254571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiendanatacion.com/noticias/files/5408214309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9pl8p0ajqtnc3sha8mrbclu6l/82566021728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydunglenguyen.vn/upload/files/0dd4d4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailymaytrogiang.com/userfiles/files/58040093768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predia.cz/userfiles/file/36710995615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shoppingplanet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bojarajipenirod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hicoweld.com/shop/fck_file/file/sokuralevuxigutoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgocsm.in/userfiles/file/71005096085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjc-dev.com/userfiles/file/83408713133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stensoproject.com/userfiles/files/16368778619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://texasbordervolunteers.org/userfiles/file/xubalikuzogibuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piphoto.tw/uploads/files/202109060223514879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613812af69803---39411335245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminenceconstruction.ca/viking1/uploads/files/wavusalorufaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topupdana.com/contents/files/zetubusejiwamubijulosake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/duduzikosurog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/310ceb176f82ae18fed1ef0233c49045/56973356623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finliz.lt/i/File/50033426734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://booklandbooks.com/userfiles/file/26309980414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=intergraph+freeview+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_off0001a58b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A58B 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 6f10e3db19a97dfc16b987da4f70956ca0aae87b7597dc4fbb6222b001389a6d
font_01_sfnt_off0001bdf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BDF6 24128 bytes
SHA-256: 2b1cbd022b9a54bb1e5d492ab0ea6646dddce9eb5793fbe4ef59eb0b11a15eb4
font_02_sfnt_off0001fc89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1FC89 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1