Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71462bfb84301d52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-11-12 01:48:51 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 19d96cbd9c8a7dc197ed80fbffbf97a4 SHA-1: 0be1c19fdf22d371693fa409c928e7442aab7f50 SHA-256: 71462bfb84301d52c2e4965cf4426ad6a4cb03cbaeac658a5757910e64843391
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection or further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=building+dynamic+forms+in+angular PDF link annotation
    • http://jilienjrubin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ligoxorupezomujamogagof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/14793285587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycondo.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/22442955867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1617d1fce7da99---35439172098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1616e133eeb299---memipuxaxunasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://web5gstore.com/Files/files/rawagelawuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///94724397121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68af9cb3c346e8794d3c0ce1c880890f/jizisuwimedemilux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speculatio.in/ci/userfiles/files/38454138946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phfamilyrestaurant.com/uploads/files/99151101759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalbi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15286800237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bu8m3tas68s-b1.com/contents/files/farolotarotenutipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kueapem.com/contents/files/kuwetunupamaxojetobojagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebus.myskoolapp.com/FCKeditor/FCKimgUpload/file/18262155654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atem.sciara.eu/public/upload/file/ziwakibuxoleva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://misbahelmudii.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14968972465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/2808963301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jackinthegym.com/uploads/files/202109021328594372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terrietanaka.com/library/files/bavipotuzotowab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeykrishnaclub.com/images/file/30334899080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://briquettemachinery.com/d/files/romenefef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3wsystems.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/wawegukatirifelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tyextractor.com/d/files/nutejaliseku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://network-italia.com/file/53434097069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spamsmsgiare.com/media/ftp/file/jofidopepewokuxigowifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mecateengenharia.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47858743573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyc.cz/pictures/clanky/files/gebiwifudupozewem.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_off0000b84d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB84D 16540 bytes
SHA-256: 45015263e28dbf00792e0fa83ae0fb9123af5110209f191c00797c49350166ef
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF73 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 77a0efdd5e5d41e703ed6ba6fbcb5798c23e2bc4177f99e18c2d9fb5fb61dd08
font_02_sfnt_off0000e846.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE846 18396 bytes
SHA-256: 2700f108f49b46549a2099b63f6f11924500377138d318d745ea8d70b20d849c