Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71956e1a40a63197…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 11:17:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c5ef6e2f9bdbf59ffa791aca117add0b SHA-1: 13b24dfda1f0a757ebc0ede22f7765a6c10c562b SHA-256: 71956e1a40a63197594701d57753eeb69b564307bfb58854fe0089baadea9b09
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, and is detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document is structured as an image-only lure, typical of phishing campaigns, and contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and link farms. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 69 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=microphone+not+working+on+firestick+remote PDF link annotation
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161465e6c4167a---jugitutozedod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2cb5f5f495e4fb4b835fe85bd009518/ruzuxegozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kietminhrivet.com/upload/files/59202459935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hla.vn/upload/files/lotunixotozekox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.whoamiandwhyamihere.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50192023089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146b805ecf33---lazavodiverejanofonoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zerosquareonline.com/file/xafolulodomodadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franzoesischebulldoggen.eu/userfiles/file/33879403969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tort-art.ru/userfiles/file/lixejupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satit.nrru.ac.th/satit/_Adminis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vasujusenuxanuwaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://used-machinetools.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/12505027817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaudi.tw/upload/file/78584484040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stka.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11465919859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monographie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/madijapanikagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobermanncz.eu/files/55597170154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161302371238bf---43782387641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d27b1790f06f54e6287fb1c3c250cb0c/64700650221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://illinoislivestock.org/userfiles/file/798685153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7b25b7f4e046c80634eaa7c6db4d81c/vikejazapunokunatuwumip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuitsdartistes.eu/images/file/giragakufawogowil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/logugawasetem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/jikexisowuzezizexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspit.ro/imagini_ws/medizugogemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santeh.md/img/files/betasuril.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_off0000b376.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB376 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB8D 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 5befd38dd211957b54787cfb7269189b2ffd3951bc47932a94ae2fe2d5ec9379
font_02_sfnt_off0000e4a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4A5 13988 bytes
SHA-256: 6f109ec96bdc532b49fac15bbb0fb247bc5dae236f687e4c2bdec17f4674ba4e