Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71562aebfc1faf3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-15 13:48:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f980b0141be84c545e372eff8106cb6d SHA-1: a721d8d57d0f67fff35317ce10805fbde82f4e7e SHA-256: 71562aebfc1faf3eee42a7f3af77c511bdaf792dc81cf07351d44adb7d262c56
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. These links are likely used to facilitate phishing attacks or distribute further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ligue+1+france+table+standings PDF link annotation
    • http://i-harmonics.com/upload/files/73784624428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichibus.vn/uploads/news_file/ziziwululovogupefabeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnshoppingbag.com/upfiles/file/wefubapijajorakifokuzime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myredm.ru/uploads/file/4939326551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maciejabramowicz.pl/upload/files/file/sirawotusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharma-tools.eu/galeria/file/lutokasodenarimoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///satumokate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eg-connect.com/uploads/editorfiles/file///sidinajoxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podwierzba.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15502371334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblo.com/app/webroot/img/files/zavipavafod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcenevents.nl/site/upload/files/tovefikonixopalozikinuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adf4af2cfea262b79ea3a7f0194444a8/49734729585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariacene.com/userfiles/files/segew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brixtontaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/22972998944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://first-group.kr/ckupload/files/46730641410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartvoicecom.com/userfiles/vedavebebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snsi.jp/image/news_file/53705886198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayernglobal.de/userVZ/file/32980265343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiflex.ru/userfiles/file/80819849512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://equipociclistaugeraga.com/ciclistas/userfiles/file/vubufujorapotovetazipawad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q05nj8648augaqj65jdcntl4jj/98207431837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrix-corporation.com/upfiles/editor/files/xigelepejoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiermyanmar.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68308678660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomelieagency.com/userfiles/files/3059675276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4fe51009e4f216915edb61791075ea0/9663201457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140a0c2baabf---redut.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_off0000c36b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC36B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000db7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB7D 17880 bytes
SHA-256: 95a430600efaee55c14d836e5bf803e7f442a46d2e3e44c29b19a435a5760dda
font_02_sfnt_off00010a01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A01 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 477c7161d20f8515afce88d1ca1b581518cfa891d82cb93ceecbb3f3726141de