Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71c2bf9ba8b79d24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.6 KB Created: 2021-07-01 18:53:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 7ff1da7f4a3d78537f9dee66c4610416 SHA-1: 3ee8e5f29a0ea653e26f3ce5b4d9df27d94f4566 SHA-256: 71c2bf9ba8b79d2443df5f6b71a133f5408d710b8d66b7256f2ccdf89540cee8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URIs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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 https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pencil+drawing+for+kids+step+by+step PDF link annotation
    • http://chickendaylacrescenta.com/uploads/files/popaguba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ebaff6415fe9142bc2239a3de5604c2/lalovarebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb40f9a5ec4dce9df495a813d39e4a46/sirapiriwulafigowaxevopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scbczy.cn/up_files/file/20210620_154226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4h5ct3uau21kmbn7rgvt40u9pj/feriresofominerijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de470f3c161c56a57d15adfe68a6fccb/kinumabasof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trendstyleimage.com/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23424444902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e56obtaruidltc3qhh284k2tjr/79448347411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b4fda16ac---72744709008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haciogullari.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/nomagajutuwadumigowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostinica-domodedovo.ru/files/vivumepirewalut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/489305116897f61a1faf0d181324c167/74983589930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/leqpipnqld0efnhmm0suuapvm0/gujewijuzafenujuzupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boumqueur-edition.com/upload/fckeditor/file/guvezupukozepagik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f0b537dc55---18491365791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akazwaeiw.xn--p1ai/editorfiles/file/95894341546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reflectionuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cm83v7ddcpp78fpe45bh7io4li/5643981412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/jumaxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/wepovogamemok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apluskleaning.com/admin/images/file/xevalowesujuxebavasuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08b3b8f29924b0123af9a0a33423cd89/seruro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/512bbc1fefe9c31ceb12bf304ace4905/20786486864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607257e4b6698---zakavakugovopirom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4ccff8fac1e80f4d5449c7e6f960ae2/mivutesomow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermoulin.com/userfiles/file/sajosunaluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cm8llcc84lqqaiarpvdn5jcba7/tenonegowezowegefaw.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_off00010856.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10856 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012068.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12068 16400 bytes
SHA-256: 0dfa8c96ddd996319a45fe6a9604a75b0d8d2ba2491bd755717e17837204503d
font_02_sfnt_off00014afe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AFE 11228 bytes
SHA-256: 0460fcdb876231c756d83a71e08362b496d219bb661b524bbb983dcaf391bfe1