Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81003362781b9691…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-08-15 02:48:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8ff897d5091b064c1daa8dcf5e7dde75 SHA-1: ce4c23f5f5be314036d9cdd8530b4f4cc50dc648 SHA-256: 81003362781b9691dc3945a172d7320f4b7321bb6c0159866af4c558151dcdaa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous unknown URLs further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://nctpa.biz/clients/5/51/51e593b678cc4707ea5ff7b662bcbdb9/File/dipovatabuvisemuzudipik.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.520amis.com/upload/files/mesebozepib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/2021652342108574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kunjipsc.com/uploads/files/bajaxonilapekobodefez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/roo6rfntoubmesb7preec5km24/79667048592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teyadegitimvideo.com/calisma2/files/uploads/14378244250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosycaffe.com/file/6944560879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608623cee7b87---10306747619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tks-forever.com/upload/2021/08/03/file/91789189195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danchrisjewelry.com/userfiles/file/70995347590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/garaxomosigemubopezase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160faf82ba9967---lakaxetukosakepul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/jibuvebitujalugipetega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcutech.net/upload/2021/07/file/1626532168548969755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a67583b81cf---nibiputatakudifemuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096bd59bfd56---xolofemur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/34116629283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6p83sdhrr6q797sdpo16692cl9/zoveje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkaufs-akademie.com/userfiles/file/68173508621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qnzar.com/files/vivefodex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nergizleryapi.com/image/files/74819777304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/gususi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vbkq0nvh01mm7ev5jb746vd9uj/1808292477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74231dfdabe17caf2a25e14119e17198/4847691975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1a3f1ebe336cfbdfcf423c3aaf2ed28/filiwaposagasusotiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=counting+by+7s+jairo+character+traitsPDF 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_off0001015e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1015E 11028 bytes
SHA-256: aa90c0cb6d044f3e30d4ae49ac8e7a5fb6d8299bec1905276bd6cf8853a990f9
font_01_sfnt_off00011b22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B22 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013334.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13334 18256 bytes
SHA-256: a37fe39cf0480cad6956f9106aadfeea1e0d8a71ee54a4fba5b555348b3dc858