Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81316a589ba60fa2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-06-25 12:57:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 86f65625ad247a5e66b4f9f6263229f1 SHA-1: 81a13a077ae0a56091bd57fde1c3a1cfe8dfecae SHA-256: 81316a589ba60fa2a5de3a0d9a68af4b898e85629f3893819166d963ae650ef2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a potential phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The file's structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://allnatureint.com/userfiles/file/53975261931.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://weberstellen.ch/userfiles/file/1000568405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rspon.pl/images/wyswig_images/file/39562280949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movesforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07dlk6s7i90mcq9vo4op0a9273/nutabeputuvojanuvutamek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5da9c16209808ac9fb473b0db0890e2f/xaxogorokekupiwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b43a6097d31---jarifowixaxalos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/44609037142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laclonghotel.vn/upload/files/sixorilizexakuzisugofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98ef42cc82f389a5763aaa0103af356f/pixakijer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nmglyxx.com/userfiles/file/kamuduborazanudamasak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160894106694e2---73657065509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c84f41e28f911cd093d22c11bd2f0dd/39509900997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7a98c1eedcee55dcb47092e7feca20d/zededasalijesupaxemuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c424ff05335---92080895276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210607105124604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m5d2q7eq32dtt3botn4usmbi90/17911557889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=pancreatic+duct+calcificationPDF 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_off0000e803.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE803 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 8a71cb8d27242aa84d8ce22d9a2db25e8d5e30aea0bfb7549a2d8e358d416105
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFAB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000117bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117BD 16928 bytes
SHA-256: 9f7938456f10c4086356f17b7fd9c0dbc18a15856525f1824fadc0452764e4d7