Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71182f6da65b11c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.5 KB Created: 2021-09-24 10:58:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2ea2f1f4c8e0a328a39dc7efe46dfc82 SHA-1: 9ff9ececd1b4b3c288d7944db05dd1d6709691dc SHA-256: 71182f6da65b11c22340b665cdb52e45e912424aea401e9ced86b9e4a388e71e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear instructions, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://virtuozi.ru/sites/all/sites/virtuozi.ru/files/viduvatorovazapiped.pdf
    • http://heichapuzi.com/uploadfile/file/36350705871.pdf
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142d16e2942f---geduloputoxida.pdf
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133711bca2f0---7308466788.pdf
    • http://indecomavo.pl/userimg/inc/57667750386.pdf
    • http://udaybharat.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55683540581.pdf
    • https://myclubowners.travelenvogue.com/userfiles/files/lomosokesuxapabupefuta.pdf
    • http://flightshop.jp/images/blog/file/45882634858.pdf
    • https://asoriofrio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36147302681.pdf
    • http://acrclubinversores.com/files/galeria/files/20816274622.pdf
    • https://philly.drinkpoint.com/uploads/files/rusexadesazisumupefero.pdf
    • https://sibiucuratenie.ro/fckeditor/userfiles/file/91672946375.pdf
    • http://hsi-international.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pisolol.pdf
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/ludejizenipotit.pdf
    • https://shiprapublication.com/uniformkontakt/userfiles/image/files/gezowatemu.pdf
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613646f817313---rezasagur.pdf
    • http://xn--h1agcmh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62456888188.pdf
    • https://vibanghanoi.com/uploads/files/digibemisuzelez.pdf
    • http://studiotecnicomaglio.it/userfiles/files/553747791.pdf
    • http://cappellastudio.it/userfiles/files/19515609774.pdf
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hovpikac1vjjlgj7k7eq9nj97s/nawugumapemaru.pdf
    • http://vnos.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/gesibosubolupodewodigi.pdf
    • http://abcbyspu.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/fowatizadizedefoxivuwo.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=io+games+like+among+us
    • 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_off0000aff0.bin
aa0a1f46fd6fa2e31a5fce84494379fea9287ddbd10934f586a23d87dbe1c802
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFF0 10396 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c769.bin
16e1aa72731caf2993f45ef56dfb7f613e7c61242cac48ae5a88e411dd8c161d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC769 14724 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec9f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC9F 16792 bytes