Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 081ac1ca3ce5d95a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-08-08 19:04:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 05d764aa279f5320d7cff96b4bd5ce41 SHA-1: cca0a70867c71c5f482bca517f77495237d5d5ea SHA-256: 081ac1ca3ce5d95a61cb28308324fc0de7ba44840cd993d34f56ff19230aef9d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or distribute malware. The presence of these links and the nature of the hosting indicate a likely attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://zsmnowakowski.pl/userfiles/file/63447867564.pdf
    • https://mbamantra.com/ci/userfiles/files/82000309129.pdf
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/96833554956.pdf
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/rifovi.pdf
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c49baad8aea---wuvadopolesiraga.pdf
    • http://dotbamboo.com/file_media/file_image/file/jefamofobiz.pdf
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/sinoforeme.pdf
    • https://acronimocostanzo.com/userfiles/file/lakijevatinoxojojafewifug.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827bba93216---lakipugi.pdf
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e60a2e232---95766776654.pdf
    • http://itkaufmann.com/images/fckimages/file/75285454817.pdf
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837c8457633---54578031955.pdf
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094ae2e2f4f7---11429993146.pdf
    • http://mobilephleb.com/clients/2/2d/2d2188d13063160162e6e2bbcdac547d/File/23322820287.pdf
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0544d6fd7c---merer.pdf
    • http://thuduchouse.vn/pics/file/suroluronolukipolajegemi.pdf
    • http://infinivideo.hu/sites/infinivideo/files/kifopor.pdf
    • http://contelex.it/userfiles/files/gokibopuludegabo.pdf
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c47b019f9c20d748b763b930159d986a/levexidapoduwitetukab.pdf
    • http://dblbtech.com/userfiles/file/gibutomidijajupuvorov.pdf
    • https://local-atlas.ru/userfiles/files/98865374906.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=ejercicios+present+perfect+y+past+simple+4+eso
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d6f9.bin
f9e87337ce82184f02dd4eb4f23cdb8002950f19e63590b8561320b947480341
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6F9 10944 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f05a.bin
af9834d893886ae52c9f4071b9f59efc34844a57d1ca29ac59d192c89aa4d303
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF05A 19428 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000120e3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120E3 16792 bytes