Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71dc020a134711c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 07:23:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 78ad3b3a368504e2171801362ed574ba SHA-1: 0fc9c72699934ed888781e0566da5c047712469e SHA-256: 71dc020a134711c989fb3e3f821eea5045da5373e931fd6d91093820d78139c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various websites, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of multiple external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly suggest a malicious redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://abpaluso.com/upload/file/pavotaweraxobo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alotercuman.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vexazatetizamusaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4d8cc24fcc---jasuriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideabikenews.com/user_img/files/dogafuzosoroxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/lamefagejer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160865198a58fe---tumazerirovajosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crosswaysrecruitment.com/userfiles/file/365926546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamotato.ro/userfiles/file/kedudexegamet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feuerwehrobrigheim.de/upload/files/57547092125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orbitsecurity.qa/pro_mvp_tech/uploads/file/lovenubuwufenijexavunol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c203e879f82---gisikuvuwebakapuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://app0.linkeo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/disadegonepasadilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lqkla4lp3b9s06brcqau1tm5d4/31268798879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doucetplasticsurgery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90476993186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5d0a78bbb2---serile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aptitudeclass.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gemafol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2726578198aa54cf9e212bc64c3c795/40462438015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zopos.zohukum.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66577193116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vsetinrally.cz/userfiles/file/774729194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22qa049g1d19a2fjhedf0916oo/370613172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=musica+que+es+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_off0000d25c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD25C 20240 bytes
SHA-256: 1e3399b7a3f75eabb9fd5859831fbe8307405cb6ee1e143a44f337982aa2bde7
font_01_sfnt_off000105a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011dbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DBE 10384 bytes
SHA-256: 6e73645a074deb23d11e9378eede117f3e1c36b641993d55d53effa5eb824b80