Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e01dd02d602ddd49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:03:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: cadd1908d9ade61b0a3586b42d0b9581 SHA-1: 139498bf37bf302d76a98e7cea7b15906923c825 SHA-256: e01dd02d602ddd49ec09d507bc07b84b08ff7521886c8c69f30f434cf0429c87
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the document acting as a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to external resources, possibly for phishing or to download further payloads.

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 https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4afae39f10---34292531888.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/24498058399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibonatura.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuwaxepotimorosofezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korean-school.hu/hangul/userfiles/file/kuzifilatinepilizaruweku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carsongrad75.com/clients/3/35/35717660c32d3dd9b0ffde8f33a19d23/File/jukajusolarageravib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easternhoteljeju.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210612_3AB16C16D3EDA1DC.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p6v728e52qhv7ieuca0p2811d3/6790884975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf61dd0115---volagenodagikoxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mintowncoffee.net/uploads/images/files/17321669799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esportenerd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/biradi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dotcomtravelegypt.com/userfiles/files/92828835442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unnatiwelfareorganization.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xonujudujiminupojodedoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/zafavesutugawibuxulaboda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legalinet.eu/userfiles/files/fegevavosazetiworoxifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4f25e7760---73379926342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hydratrend.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pofokerikuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deltools.com/userfiles/file/tinul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e10e7957ca908477de3ba8c0a0d84fb/14767875646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagnosticaedilizia.com/userfiles/files/bunukexiwafemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolitplus.ru/files/file/2715483444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drticket.ir/basefile/drtiketcom/files/53226028871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greatnice.club/updatefiles/file/55284542706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/67985190576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjpexport.com/files/85385319109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=learn+accounting+for+beginners+pdfPDF 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_off0000d901.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD901 10948 bytes
SHA-256: c88ccf2438490041f4c9ff61cc10d7db6cd5d0d4ce9760455e5bc365db23d26f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f219.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF219 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A2B 17224 bytes
SHA-256: f0dfd7eb391e8d3bde99e9a9442c7d13a41311135466543100e7725fff4316ef