Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81ace92a40153140…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-07-17 18:02:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: af19588604e790ebc0fef402d96bd28c SHA-1: e42f025ffdfcd1dfeb9c8e2de0b093b2df95f575 SHA-256: 81ace92a401531401c2098866e183009e1685d641ff2a101a22e73a0a5fbbce8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a high number of links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://littlepearlspublishing.in/data/eimages/file/deminap.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://globalmediaminds.com/uploads/files/69772803145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-sportis.com/images/upload/83543791589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igigeothermal.jp/userfiles/file/43780368303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolkandkolkdesign.com/site/data/ws/files/pawomupetimafapenomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art4you.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/tolapenulizoxopewobenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1od6dr7o6lot3dr9fcjnkmvj6a/95766273123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098803c3c3cd---mazuvogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/rupupezosiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ihdbd.org/upload/files/pezidetido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769b4c23c04---zofem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abeess.com/userfiles/file/malugixunefazorojudob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/97905977180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparkpro.lv/content/file/gijugumufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.net/images/userfiles/file/45125663814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b678ac0eba6---fodabegubegam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd702d27972---bivefoligijisibuzisuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esenkardeslerinsaat.com/resimlerfiles/wazupodavipavitusajixeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/epc120m9h6bpvnj5luajqvcebr/kafiwiroxuzubudoveja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8b41565b74---65021247885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroisvias.ru/userfiles/file/9703520828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb13812814b---5620850350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/34377241267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qe2blsv461vhbc3upn2ic4s3ef/33062596841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3380e8ae4c---wizolobukemojugipevana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=countdown+timer+overlayPDF 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_off0000ef26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF26 19032 bytes
SHA-256: 625f8d5cd9c249bf544faf2d8d012db39540fb58f9970cd86ef62ffd7508e1b6
font_01_sfnt_off000120b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000138cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138CF 10636 bytes
SHA-256: e452a532062fd7c5279fd186e21154d7c899c8f3ab5ed3677b49b82c8ef6cbce