Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73101b08aa9229f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.3 KB Created: 2021-07-18 13:36:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 8c3c043e48326a2d8d8a9c2f4be9ba1c SHA-1: 54bdd71dcc8bac60a1c979d38a139ae7b662e8b6 SHA-256: 73101b08aa9229f5efa7836463e4b36a7de570008c9595a47cdd075772939840
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for SEO poisoning or phishing. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9886

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://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/57326041257.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0137942287fc2d562e83d865255ee78a/zediliduxomatabuloxosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipsgroupjjn.org/userfiles/file/maditogufujinekolebigezut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9df45965c48f740435554826e4fc9d1/begowowifesumefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stiff.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nodomuxemikenixufuwatewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/90953229130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d9aa2a294f---81814949313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syarmarka.ru/userfiles/files/getodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://handientu.vn/userfiles/file/27793099068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b5dd4023c0---29847468034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infotechb2blite.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/ribaxuzefidik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozanatalan.com/iboard/includes/userfiles/files/fobomipij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/99948538664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baobihungphu.com/media/ftp/file/79957577840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091cec3b05e3---pavola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e4d297d0e684b1c5376f95d8ed03195/budagusamovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2rc4lkfjt4454s9f2i1fuu5ueg/16236216595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://familienarbeit3plus.ch/userfiles/files/69292635160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safeabortionnepal.com/userfiles/file/99836899362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaibooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210718_8EF66021E2A8460F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2f1f1dbb9---zazuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlandcougars83.com/clients/2/26/268573c5102cd00412bac87cee9346ec/File/kavax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psn-monolit.ru/img_file/files/dotodegubus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876fb8cdcd3---likavolodetepodeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab0e8a0ebb0---79833665716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cda148ba91c7b66e4b87a87945c072ca/72684294567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=swing+equation+by+point+by+point+methodPDF 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_off00014cf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CF0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00016507.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16507 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 89119f0fb80bb6804a384f0ac71e1a04805c3dde3b552d50a8604cb049b7287a
font_02_sfnt_off00017e5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17E5A 20512 bytes
SHA-256: aff33911706a4bde6eb784db3608e5a58d8b4c1d853b92992b225f2ef45947f0