Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81b317a7de0059e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-07-13 04:44:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 44401efc21a767f64d6a7f8a950f0a95 SHA-1: c71e222a5f5e54814e39b0e34b68f8b70c443bff SHA-256: 81b317a7de0059e6ef30c01aac83fc6ed6700277e64eff6baf625878bd904ea2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites, many of which host PDF files. This suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://phr4u.com/files/dititotegojoludavuroma.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0d33859e60---40128905720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topinsolventa.ro/userfiles/file/73439200370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33eb378000b2143db45f2afec01d2990/fobogadix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saovietgroup.com/upload/FCK/file/zerorilore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degeninhotel.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53070737454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t3a1mn07eepjiepfc8n5f0h6h0/43639321212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987536bd2bc---kogerinuworuwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dh9i839aib9mjhc8hv6k1t2pa7/sozimibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://draftingfloorplan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26699236611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d38a91e7e8fb06d295cc6eb582574809/7578180757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chsjackets75.com/clients/a/ae/ae1e0d6431e3080ad3d3eb1024a27f31/File/77141849621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1d3j5s0te075snius33k5b2r6/69745777189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/67605683817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d59b5793e6---89219256849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/as3apfkla7jj8imag2nvh7ojh6/biremovapifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efuegypt.org/userfiles/file/gadutogepudesofosukatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9939df4592282beaddbaf11b14765d8/2028284269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75459658e3901073285a23ae3dc7225d/vopomonasugiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7abb47231---95440678133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duszek-lasu.pl/userfiles/file/fofitovosejanesujogoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1vd4ntdd4ovek616rj8bqf2nuh/28720408529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1pf9tedp8omksg3jbfujqcakk/nuzizorevijefazurojigot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c190a670a0---refikenesujedofewakejato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+heal+tools+in+minecraftPDF 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_off0000f098.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF098 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000108aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108AA 16912 bytes
SHA-256: a31861a742e38741526b8f2429b9a2dc7595333621235485a019f4fc2bffe926
font_02_sfnt_off00013485.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13485 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 480232bd2c374477bfe818ad069786d90a05f7d67c32d74399dca28fa6544eb0