Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81525147adfe93d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

132.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 22:01:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: afd0504d0b696228469812623c842d24 SHA-1: f6c7d5d9f5c70d8509d45154009b3f08f36c1d54 SHA-256: 81525147adfe93d6977da9bc3e8c0e8d250a9484aa95a458d8ccef374eb62711
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, with numerous embedded URLs. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 https://cursosgratuitosonline.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5gdj5hjc88efrk4dbl18jntsob/75795747045.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/27759567764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinshow.org/FCKeditor/file/32455423035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/81984956292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderjamesbackcatalogue.com/userfiles/file/xalowozexasixegitakulero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c23095c810d---84794492788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d22756ad44---99527021808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belgium-ex.com/images/blog//file/jawipisagofami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20dfb6ecc8c320da17ccdc79ca88c523/35136532307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc23f5df80d---dukolasajajoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d707c3a9eb5---87513570172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pj8tpuveo53djro6edlqq4o9a6/ragetek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd3614282c0---nuxiwafedaxinos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cab8ced5cb4---46395793128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/files/28699406959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3268cc2f91b31610ced31a3e16bd457e/69928743305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160896d21bd553---13797262167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee0dda149103be1b82ed4756386c4ddb/ditowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4881f28fcbb53584386e85f9231e45ba/62629722197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7jthasgp8dskpbfd812hsjkser/rizademebid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f619fe614b---87396242958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608255b578847---zutoligeromepepevorima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607578c70086e---tujakujuvetafewajudoxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=with+concrete+operational+thought+children+canPDF 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_off0001a41d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A41D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001bc2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BC2F 18032 bytes
SHA-256: 27cb47c44906077cecc75cdd27c9d58018a5a9570348ed81f18a52608d5613a4
font_02_sfnt_off0001eafc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1EAFC 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 47a549a41e940ab4a161fec10fd23310080549a839ef0b8265b9a2683d220ddf