Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81752c370c3dcfc6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.6 KB Created: 2021-10-01 22:48:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 4abaada086cddca9a04f9ad987ad1246 SHA-1: bb4727b432889c46417cdb3c2ef1d19e50ce8a52 SHA-256: 81752c370c3dcfc6c6e9850ce448619a00b230bf06da1bf00f321629c3c33ba6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious document techniques.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9761

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=shabnam+bangla+choti PDF link annotation
    • http://czerwoneiczarne.pl/files/file/lexogeguwowesenitidip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://membermimpi.com/contents/files/vusadosugezunisagekamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/batevenazukumifokop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckysim.com/userfiles/file/33470532303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hussco-steel.com/husscofiles/files/40330358822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rugsdirect4u.com/uploadedfiles/file/zukopapefik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adetexfoamgroup.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/87521683420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgogs.com/mgfiles/file/62797258585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vsrru.ru/userfiles/file/80712488499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahamianbrewery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuvasobijixozekami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/mesirofudapeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--ob0bjxt9h99icicrvkksa421cwwp7hiv4d6a.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vulepozixolosegafovorodat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienmaythanglong.org/uploads/files/mivaduwekugotidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funbugs.ie/files/file/2508221202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongchangkj.com/uploadfile/file///2021092810293243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motocams.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rerin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f66b00fe1a0cf99d64890930a95d36e8/zaterap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kossuthdigisuli.hu/userfiles/file/95267267967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jerseyshorepirates.com/userfiles/files/40665578294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.esicm-old.org/admin/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dexugeketakagapozamebid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9g3s6ugu34596qbslpou1bjq5/xodesiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chayka-svg.ru/files/57528221136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technoarc.net/userfiles/file/201701197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovesenergy.com/file/kubiteranuzes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finance-bulldog.cz/UserFiles/File/68050945580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mengnuanua.com/app/webroot/files/files/72587073748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbf36880a1f74755c901e1fb2d0a1ba6/totogedigibugixukanolepav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_006_off000152b1.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x152B1 16788 bytes
SHA-256: e4963c4b2441adc0bb0207f5f728746328a13d406d3b2ddd9573a6bcd804c1ab
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA28 22252 bytes
SHA-256: b7adc857585a5e13850fc85c8a74c82dab49fd8eddf795947a0c147db61fed64
font_01_sfnt_off000122fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B12 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 0f00fd44bd293e31aadfaffa39d2c4cc59cc50fe6fe6a5879fc338ab1b4fe56f