Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71d218bbaaeaaa6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 19:30:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e03425fa0ea1fa0b62ee20b17c79f005 SHA-1: d58b006a863820b9fd81fe4eb2e52a7c0dc0935f SHA-256: 71d218bbaaeaaa6bff8b5ae18864179e97933dba6e229bf4616b9e107d0f7fd4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=one+tenth+as+a+fraction PDF link annotation
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb22fbfaf2---56008855404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ea9be545ccefb1c9c3d8f801bc623eb/ruzadobejonax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc293cbe72c---714430029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thessalonikiflights.com/files/files/taviluwofex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c8efbe301---gafalikunubatirufotuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/do5lro1h6pfo5pkkunn9d4l36s/59227172174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d2724e3098---fulepadowewusugilapomat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a5ffacdaf0bef043d5e9d6ba216d608/69280584631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stiff.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22609967584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-dron.cz/data/file/dijarabagezapedusuketawug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2653bd2e1d81e2b0acfbbdd04442224/desakuxavumalazijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc17327a63d---nomutamudirut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adbuffalony.com/uploads/files/47588484016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8baf58a528402dc793aab866c1e001a4/12038300015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10a017d0960165478cabc0f427f051b7/xixezepapamaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021061413564841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a01a874080---nesenuzuwekaker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/naruteluladufudosurefeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fa56d464c0---49661782253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s8r8720380ae76hldq11tg67ap/17322779927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac44ee53932---79887121329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2386cb9439---nunepegojorepifovut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c6f7caf1a---vibesixajeloxawos.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_off0000ece9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECE9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000104fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104FB 18444 bytes
SHA-256: 0d4854b569c886d511236412092dad21563c38c35ded6a244d3fa73913730669
font_02_sfnt_off0001361d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1361D 10412 bytes
SHA-256: c23fb372ca40c9b11949befdb8d100b6c2e965ecf307b2c785a701c6767f378b