Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71d7f09829b0c6ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-09-09 20:30:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c2a9611649f65f20592a87331b99cddf SHA-1: 5f7e7abda87edc11f5a7bad0c635eb6d4df7cd6b SHA-256: 71d7f09829b0c6ee80314b59e6b416f4930c17003c078bc6f0d2dcea41af937f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to lure victims to potentially malicious sites for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://dcicz.org/userfiles/file/45162891096.pdf
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4da8654d6f032c0651ee83b0f5726c2e/paberegalege.pdf
    • http://chernogolovka.inhome360.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73094927534.pdf
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/images/blog/file/52123824361.pdf
    • http://mytrangroup.com/uploads/userfiles/file/siresuxubepivigos.pdf
    • http://xn--80aafbjcazdrhzgiddbbcsg4l.xn--p1ai/pict/file/xuwaloduliwevozigiwosifo.pdf
    • http://emblem4home.com/UserFiles/Member/File/25529212400.pdf
    • https://fototipia.hu/files/files/24543836407.pdf
    • http://tarnava.eu/user_images/file/jezunurawugenusilusijip.pdf
    • http://intertravel.hu/_user/file/nogesezinudepelir.pdf
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51b9348bb87a29ff7dd5afce9b769c95/80332326856.pdf
    • http://arenabilardo.com/data/_files/dizojeserepobesolexa.pdf
    • https://kitchensofdiablo.com/upload/file/pajusonutufojobe.pdf
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c11cf5b396be0d5516e3efae1ed4cb86/53921778252.pdf
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/97217617374.pdf
    • https://tadimtursu.com/image/files/kilesajudesuvajabuvarize.pdf
    • https://atasuorganiktarim.com/upload/ckfinder/files/2333062359.pdf
    • http://slbreakingnews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xiwofifibitujur.pdf
    • http://kamerton.nl/clientfiles/76854134804.pdf
    • http://www.injamal.es/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guvofazexelajaweno.pdf
    • https://chptravel.ir/data/file/lidawixuv.pdf
    • http://etabetasurvey.com/userfiles/files/49345397471.pdf
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/userfiles/file/4221650912.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=manikarnika+full+movie+tamilrockers
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c12b.bin
604bbb36c05e6fc70c9e6ddd6aa2874b5b878db0267cc3538cfde5b68d8db392
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC12B 19312 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f322.bin
a2334887aeaf702b5e67cfec76591d300d4c825f5d25c1fc05310d585f59574d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF322 10748 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010be5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BE5 16792 bytes