Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71f8af09985d0cfc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 02:00:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 133d04a689f48ec898dd1323bb44493a SHA-1: 9ccdc668f521abed8ae82f14bdb68c745e21ee83 SHA-256: 71f8af09985d0cfc243556b5cb2b8e473ebdeca80cbb17e1ebc59020def793d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The primary attack vector is likely spearphishing attachment, leading to exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://handientu.vn/userfiles/file/73323391235.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4fb14d66ea---fiwakikupitopifuwewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/11829339330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhjpharm.com/upload/files/tidize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23fpa703atbuorc8b7f3tgf757/tixajajekulor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eko-briketes.lv/userfiles/files/bokuber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namdolove.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210812_75FDEFD16409728E.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab299378cc3---84337149554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aff103d96e1---wutakuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragonera.cn/admin/userfiles/file/84811442292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940a9859f4d---58081104888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tractorpulling-emmeloord.nl/upload/file/zijitidatigaxitemidaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derkwoo.com/upload/editor/files/7824041881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daehwa.info/uploaded/file/78146381753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/6720573586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/415d866158321ae4c053ff8bdbd63daa/govemanuxekutenozegoziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyjcincottalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jowedukunotoron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rintrans.com/files/84703671090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb90a1cbc5661fdc7575fb303eed26a8/19773219433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf17e90a376---3309168480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c4dd8e6a9cd6aa4342b8137ac11d5a3/tijijelubajadoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e587e85e827---82606721681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb0ebd7446---64069823279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770fedbca76---dusulazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cancercareresearch.com/userfiles/file/27826784126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=tetrahymena+thermophila+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_off0000e34f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE34F 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 32650317125e481dd48460da3a362ea52b6de565df2569722ae043846424beb8
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB8D 17044 bytes
SHA-256: 251f51b86e842ec8a382375fd6b5fe2d5940f946e67485fd998bfb76f38c6541
font_02_sfnt_off000127b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127B4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1