Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71cedbfa2f292016…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:49:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 4225a94cabefae5f379cad3fb7c2bf66 SHA-1: cdaf0ddf4f03ba7e56991fe78182f07c6a300ab9 SHA-256: 71cedbfa2f292016733fa4c03fe56a88e0177c93f4f86d30750df10c3d5b9418
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to domains associated with link farms or compromised content management systems. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond its structure as a link collection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/netikovujelap.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vienkiemis.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/52464037711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmflower-kkc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/teruwegobukipijupidina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theptaynam.vn/upload/files/24244714024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneophytou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10592488863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightningriskassessment.com/ci/userfiles/files/vilivakalepage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e7c553a474---nezir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.de/userfiles/file/53724640731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086041302497---sigijediwutazakitedad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forglory.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bimikotoropowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diegogenna.it/userfiles/files/57923896684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jakebenmd.com/clients/0/0e/0eef9d569b11303d075d19626cc6f958/File/xexidudavidilufijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ddservice-bmw.pl/userfiles/file/87519932759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g9g5gur7n3li6jdrub359iut7b/lukikobozetarazopov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161214e1e13d4e---xabuwatinodojujopumenutar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/67131568787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/24816401888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/lonadepinuwexaweravaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biznesfishki.ru/files/userfiles/files/7290031396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vishwkarmaenterprises.com/webroot/img/userfiles/files/vanix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chixue.com/uploadfile/file/20210612145212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agroadvanced.com/app/webroot/newsletters/editor/files/lipixuvaloburubifafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=logarithm+antilog+table+pdfPDF 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_off0000b041.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB041 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c858.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC858 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 36bfe37ad64358aae7ad4f7ada59b89c3cf954a79b31787e86aeb513a00017b0
font_02_sfnt_off0000e0c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0C6 15040 bytes
SHA-256: 87b47e958c6741b878dbbe47a3021d81b7cea2da9bd4482a12a017e5cf106fd1