Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f01bf0dda11944c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.1 KB Created: 2021-06-11 17:47:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: e35bbc5bd214f489e99bbb3c582c778b SHA-1: d52ff9fdf503be7c46e0ed7b70f35d0b719cdcf9 SHA-256: f01bf0dda11944c65f4047d95d8bf89d9befdffe0af7f68a09efd1ef41366ab6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for distributing further malware or conducting phishing attacks. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cherry+mobile+flare+s8+software+update PDF link annotation
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r0prtuuch6icq1defokn13cpck/felis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plnjl.com/userfiles/files/bonejexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/junabawijuvizamidilov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8a0d22241830d78d163996abdd61469/65756383299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4f4c21c51---fadoxumilewagalubinumabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098458b6ff00---wowefufavan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cochleartudaskozpont.hu/files/11520622372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c102a603086---gebatexaxarupol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08226af5bcde5ea009c58e1afab7c014/98509774771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/88373212953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/debib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607371e89bce3---24683856815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encoregallery.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a24670cf92f1f9ebc464e67501f3977/7829646124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc6e2422e2e26bc6e1c40f05d703c695/mutoludutolikogufed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/tebawivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000130a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130A7 5608 bytes
SHA-256: 250518fdf30fea3b73089db98dee9c196401d4c50321b900e4631313c8d67177
font_01_sfnt_off000143d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143D1 12244 bytes
SHA-256: be8d7aa0f1c540ff7c8a9192ea29e1558f8b927e97c0573ee6326f1123fcf61e
font_02_sfnt_off00016d41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16D41 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333