Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71b841c4ce09b694…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-08-18 20:34:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 822a720b3cfbba0acecb08cd2617912a SHA-1: ebde2baca320c0e7e199dfd67592cd8e832946d8 SHA-256: 71b841c4ce09b694266ffdf0ffa55565a3fb4aa6d71e8b5f00d0fdd5261f232e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for malicious content or phishing lures. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous external links suggests an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious destination, aligning with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d109c8be3b---wakesove.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b51238fd9cd3ec584d7c6c1b0e24659/26745023027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfa28e3ce8f3cd4fbaa2e4108b02b387/xovurutuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51c3d48f3790ffcf6c8c842e5fe3a51e/43779362684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pls475t800pog5jnifofutvrj7/39851041703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://food-cloud.com/home/food-cloud/www/site//site/data/files/zepologugotevozovefibof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/lomum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/58580295650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/57299963170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epmresearch.org/userfiles/files/jitebeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayamedbursa.com/userfiles/file/kovulezumatiguzeruwigogop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31b19388864375fa09a6413748674455/lerefenejigosupetepebiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wrd13.com/force/file/nadopowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.specemc.ru/upload/files/17183644879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okeefesreef.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36395093433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavebnevyrobky.sk/www/upload/files/rekoxavamafad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketnoikienthuc.com/upload/files/42109922167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3473b491c1---vuxepupesoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9194f1d3628eeed62988e0955e2105c5/6952545666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palcev.ru/userfiles/file/luwoxodosonijiwaguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcelponjee.nl/ponjeefiles/file/darawowogexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepaper.tw/archive/upload/files/rovosumudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094873259389---342189109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713307f18c0---35634759564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607953fb77ef5---lovovaxijur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=realidades+1+capitulo+6b+answers+page+207PDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000bf95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF95 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7A7 14908 bytes
SHA-256: f835c574131a446252ed13c52bf48832193a117a97e7fece4dc524011c964a3f
font_02_sfnt_off0000fce7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCE7 11572 bytes
SHA-256: 1737074006bf307340f51a8fe7830d29c88d7cbd48f178477e2b9f77bcf4f0d3