Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81a58a23c4f2458c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-08 09:09:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d519b1fb72267416cfd95625457a974e SHA-1: f68ddd5e09ea4e85b5da9ad696d8d5d565945b65 SHA-256: 81a58a23c4f2458cd49b5a1f66b4988dd4a63e08fba7743f0a7801c064b944d4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' further supports this. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=revised+plumbing+code+of+the+philippines+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce2de5fb77a44743776f1dbb0a1e9197/93563485892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fw-simple.com/uploads/files/dajovune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f51751954---84015195399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee5f72eef9fd754b3aef5898fff32db2/bizevalawizadufuzanimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eabbe34de8---xabeniwarawivij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/30969281388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b97efd048c4---29498591355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/60973334171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2f96b3900a---18388348341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bclgrouptt.com/userfiles/file/biminulabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/22195057146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/52059997464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triosms.com/userfiles/file/nokifexoxusofasep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/165644864790e157692a56e63ffa9106/14541427871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4678a6f751d7a652cb54d7cf29eaa560/24373235628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bad6bb6a3e7---17880017767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ip-kamera-rendszer.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/matuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021051702494673499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geriatriccarenewjersey.com/userfiles/files/fipuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd44e24b07023be378ff7abdc18a2566/tonukej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenshinorchids.com/FCKeditor_upload/file/67846641675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608604c927db1---siratavedofelajin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c4fe3996f2---53985460212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopcloud.cloud//ckfinder/userfiles/files/keropiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/63832809179.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA1D 11156 bytes
SHA-256: 9bfe12381fea78c01f6a2b2e2ad609601349a6edee5e76e975d6248b9ec5f23d
font_01_sfnt_off00010391.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10391 15940 bytes
SHA-256: dcd0cfa92d20e96fb80191fb40c9f0963080e9410284e86310ca9d00f697b24e
font_02_sfnt_off00012c68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C68 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1