Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f001b5d2be306599…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 15:56:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 65ca7ab7873541b1ada21d2c054332d4 SHA-1: ef4ca8f97ff0ab7562af14a7983d1e6d6eb82046 SHA-256: f001b5d2be306599d8bff0419f9ae3dc890f1565dcef2ac04d4cf61e5708c084
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a055bdda5e9---18469972148.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d3ab40675---sesifaresarenawerugad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5b6d81c07---85105528329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2f8db8ccb---zodefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/42614991460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/24496903892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b561af89908---62402912626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eravukappalpalli.com/userfiles/file/kedukoteson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/8579193039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptairsupply.com/userfiles/file/86986447494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bscsaoner.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dabidokizenebabakegeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kururlaub-ungarn.de/bilder/files/95977929095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rb0ull17bs4aj0hso9uil2aas6/nefotigawuratedalorizun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tivatijapan.com/uploads/userfiles/file/gerobutamajogotajijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://numberonerevolution.it/file/vuzuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c845ad90ec---68684474458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b59f5f3955---54416797211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ffd85a2ca---xizubibabevebuwuxoxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tikatalog.sk/_files/file/jiloturizutak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scheidenschiedam.nl/uploads//file/61925641823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hansenlight.com/UploadFile/files/19606647000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emanuelmlevin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/konufejejabuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ih8qnhnur5j3luhc0kgam3cbpe/ruratekigopifovovanomozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=and+you+synonymsPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/198e2e3a839c6305d6fee3fd1a69ae8e/25517616938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000edae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDAE 17368 bytes
SHA-256: 71ba5a707e059e920d67c1476afb8cbfd2b635990f6fafe2b22c4b66dbb9aa37
font_01_sfnt_off00011add.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ADD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000132f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132F3 9976 bytes
SHA-256: 42c10b5878aa6beeb999d28f921c518076e28d2f9be81ab9a376982f2deaa54d