Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71f3d5cf786b4432…

MALICIOUS

PDF

120.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 02:01:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b691d0704c019363207cf3f560dc3d20 SHA-1: 3adc4dc3892b050bf09849ba0eced66454e9bf08 SHA-256: 71f3d5cf786b44327dcae9478ca5445c6efdce7f8fa8d131cbc56fa127c1f089
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to domains associated with compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV and ML classifiers confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or malware distribution vector. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5adee99d36---16028985954.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bordahusfeldolgozo.hu/editor_up/zafemosuperubobilisafuxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wunogorozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607abd97d34cc---39346927734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cbs-emballages.com/upload/file/19595114858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traicaygiasi.com/Images_upload/files/50018651761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotocaroli.it/userfiles/files/razazakawitizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/71915684105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fbe649a33d---28335859275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe409c221ac90eef5022e5af980e1f7b/86331235255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gursakaryahukuk.com/images/file/kaxotewumoguwazoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iaestedresden.de/userfiles/file/64209781813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eclickapps.in/userfiles/files/tuvojaxidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/525c715dcb6ae39b51bc9829d7645852/34596320375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ceka324n7rkfm3suhkeubj0j04/lijiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4b78d537af---72063293954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qmr7sml0d1464k3ntm57kt1ukl/23675493787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9cf7890c13---dufewopek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soupworld.de/upload/file/bodibilabesugupevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shellserva.nl/docs/Image/file/wenowotulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esportenerd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89697455829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertoantoniz.com/resources/original/file/wiliriserazokagiwolebebor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c790ad934559d8788b85de40735b3d0/55800089209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a96858732c8---sirodevopadamemozowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=ugc+recognised+university+list+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_off00017032.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17032 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 4a26b0964393fee1399c96900f672ad1da1cf352ba95bda4040635baa615f727
font_01_sfnt_off0001896e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1896E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001a180.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A180 20444 bytes
SHA-256: b47c461303768c74bb35441f3c62d6ab3237984d4ac9afc85f62769e3ad7dae0