Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81627d45b4b53cfc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-07-21 03:14:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7d4d9a9ee5430cc19747b6167616c695 SHA-1: e37164d6b274634839f1656fa639bf420a4ff8c0 SHA-256: 81627d45b4b53cfc3ba32cb172163c6104f44b02c3256749764c98f5511cb549
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm the malicious nature of the file, likely used for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9850

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://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092a3b51b0a1---savupowajowexomopidutaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://huucodatlanh.com/userfiles/file/naneviwuzuzusuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aae936ea19f---47925758447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laboratoriodiprogettazione-ve.it/userfiles/files/71756335590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/kuporoxalapatunopuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ecbb075eac---vezojokivirokutanozer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/kidijidalirelosapulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tebsc.com/clients/84181/File/felalig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c03e8d9c760---24747552665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b7df4742cd87c0777bf41415204f432/razibatob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triosms.com/userfiles/file/1412788033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guoyangmoju.com/userfiles/files/61462361487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2da180b256---fuvejixaxulekadimes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc4c88d8de---72463667887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608a959ef40fc---38955336499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n8a0g290lg6fb3dmd5nk4vr27m/kalufogujumome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ab21b3516fa74b0b65da931a9945928/48988406436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ce96a779c2195e979e91b07994eb2ee/revuzofive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelicanfinancialnetwork.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kugeximedono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yokohama-model.com/userfiles/files/gisokozeroxulupora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investinwielkopolska.pl/application/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27514935126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da1ce6dcdd---67673267355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/390e07aaf5cdb62f77d7952568f3bc3f/20184065321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607356b728419---musivujaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=mutable+meaning+in+tamilPDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d4e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4E9 1780 bytes
SHA-256: ee6d8c25003eb2de61ee1fda640ec7b8e4605923364b71ee832b966c85f0f81c
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f563.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF563 10296 bytes
SHA-256: af1a2639d06b1c3fe876ab5452ccac5bf73175462a80f29ba84bad469f3cfe0b
font_03_sfnt_off00010c7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C7E 21636 bytes
SHA-256: 7f16243218298acd14ad2f98b81ec1212dce0ac8328811e2f8e40cc6989b5d5e
font_04_sfnt_off0001431e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1431E 16524 bytes
SHA-256: 3cdf4f8f4dce7a464fe4e8ceb6988aa5bf7bbea20165803f235b519784394ddd