Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71f6569440542192…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-12 16:47:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 79d10b26f5eb9bf2d31ec974e5c9c9d4 SHA-1: 69dbb7d58a8b2d82b897f504c7aae90f5b9f32b8 SHA-256: 71f6569440542192599a431bc49797be6adcb96f414dad3333e66309c8ca61ea
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 potentially compromised websites hosted on disposable domains. The embedded URLs and the document's structure suggest an attempt to trick users into visiting these sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://tachikawa-derma.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuvorefumin.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cfaef875a9---roviru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoodwierty.pl/files/file/nodogodamobog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandhotelushba.com/userfiles/file/53361733808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekselantechnology.solutions/ckfinder/userfiles/files/doposamusuxadujoxojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kargo-box.com/uploads/files/43987213207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sp3siemianowice.pl/userFiles/files/vatonedovawepijojetutakeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biographiewerkstatt-singer.de/userfiles/file/12528093471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onmamtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210911_D9CE82345B523077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bielle-srl.com/userfiles/files/ranugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/674ad74a5628110348eac41b53966745/sitokizadaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecolservizinettuno.com/userfiles/files/lexekuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finara-v.com/file_media/file_image/file/14115953106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highfieldhousehotel.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/73366236112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlponder.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ninewusewetakiwutit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tentimesneedlehill.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/69482067005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133f3a83dda8---44096923117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cana.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/zebunuzapiwabaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenlivinggarden.com/htdocs/UserFiles/file/64594794697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banktapeunadana.com/tapeunadana/bank2/admin/userfiles/file/numojubafura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135a383502f5---16985969116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balaji-technology.com/userfiles/file/tivoridikuwajidape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joomlacode.org/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/img.php?file=file/zereta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=cool+math+games+run+3+moto+x3mPDF 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_off0000c7a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7A6 10868 bytes
SHA-256: a8c326860d7f1b01a2b4d7c16a2ff67261b2812c78083af0058417ad8a6e5495
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8CC 17448 bytes
SHA-256: a504d5772c872d50039a57866c749d187e6b0f02b9d7482b5c0e467952e81129