Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71fc1dd422f35575…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB Created: 2021-07-23 02:41:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: ec399c77f572bdbac6faf1217ad01f52 SHA-1: 3b4d045cacab31d60d15b4ea71bd6dbbe61a4c8b SHA-256: 71fc1dd422f355754904a03b9395e312d822ec59c33cc4875044b0e0d253fa32
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or malware distribution lure. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to host or redirect to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the detected heuristics indicate a likely spearphishing attachment used to deliver a secondary payload or lead users to a phishing page.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b0371b054d---kisar.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tort-art.ru/userfiles/file/94199508562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncvpte.in/userfiles/file/terafiliza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795d5293678---xufud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c479373644f401b4b5a418a81a86f0b/kizegabadel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/snfpq981ndfl3ph1upnm43j74u/sofokud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a90hnjer0ondpo5e1pfntmqu8l/mabovokox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/61628461349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091618e0b7bd---farowos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariaalbese.eu/userfiles/files/maxasaletipopojelirazuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rougeindigo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28407102851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edb5b599d29---wirupuzepotadijawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonsaichik.ru/images_uploads/files/jijat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheumatology.institute/upload/content/file/79869948949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f25e13357c---53676546810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://niboparis.com/upload/fckeditor/files/84015971455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0loreo838jbmi71ghktod48gd4/95550218334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricarda-allegra.de/userfiles/file/wekafijegevuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dineflon.com//files/mipepawetutakef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisdepanneservices.com/Sites/cds/files/25913775946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqs-group.it/userfiles/files/21639858493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2j8fm4e83hlfe76tcgap7pc0bh/5172756850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a20dacccf18---nitigabom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28a2ee186098bd12405ea28da338304d/73046525734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=differences+between+individualistic+and+collectivistic+culturesPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f8b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000110c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110C2 3372 bytes
SHA-256: 5ce80d81a60f8d029d735cd365e8b299d4f9f4bf3273c70cd16abbc0d785cfab
font_02_sfnt_off00011e24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E24 17376 bytes
SHA-256: a4e48fcbb3cbb6022a22debd869a40d709c4f501e04446d682e94423baf02369
font_03_sfnt_off00014b2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B2B 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 3537cfbc5d04a5c05a06ae57aa2da7bf963239b4ef275ffd98017d38825d04f8