Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71d93fd3a4f66bf6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 06:13:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 41b16a5bcce7973b372ec5b91a450412 SHA-1: bfc7d068c0b296c5b4be7a137d0b6d919c6d733c SHA-256: 71d93fd3a4f66bf659a5528604ee952610b46d2731bc246001540df9512c91ae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its direct content, but the presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=signs+and+symptoms+of+brucella PDF link annotation
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog/file/70856289625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blueoak.fr/image/file/32962254925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/34493734170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qlinairnv.be/userfiles/file/53866354034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikima.fr/uploads/file/jagaruxowarawugodiwen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b685731a12e31ba0e71d14a737a6c7d4/medojusosoraxatefesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perchegouet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bozamakupivibusofokiduwow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc3ece0845---vobumunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asap-recruitment.net/upload/file/pedexewuzoradobugesifuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.org/contents//files/rugabinurabuxifubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulaikhatextile.com/userfiles/files/63648501505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/bagororudepojenuvume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozkayalartrans.com/userfiles/file/belikisikazofiwisaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fipjp.com/userfiles/file/10136582663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maconlux.lu/userfiles/files/zebifulugumedekeriropofur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/gewegojejewapamoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekorob.pl/userfiles/file/10212864281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u4u729citprrqp96328cc6m0q1/62584017550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/55536563527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careersourcechipola.com/files/public/gimivakuwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/050b75228edb57a37467ba407266786c/wokaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/22777347701.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_off0000e54c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE54C 17740 bytes
SHA-256: 5085138ba9ad3ad3a4a71f47d5f472cf9e108d4909f4b525887164577095ff8e
font_01_sfnt_off0001134b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1134B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B62 11392 bytes
SHA-256: e19accaa80811bc30227f0cf680d2e5c2eaa987162a835fa042f011c76015452