Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81ba229b2e0e8e81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-21 12:36:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d9eb5315fabd4cda6507a53e97289d8d SHA-1: a9db98369674f9ec3dfc7a17623014d21ece6f2b SHA-256: 81ba229b2e0e8e8173375357331eea79da82e883839ef682fb139ab007ebf615
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document employs a link farm strategy, presenting multiple URLs that masquerade as download links, potentially for movie files, to entice users. The presence of a high-confidence ML classifier hit and ClamAV detection strongly indicates malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing and malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://sportgalaktik.sk/userfiles/file/nurebimufusofexulegalaja.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pastoret.it/userfiles/files/43459620844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liantoong.com/archive/upload/files/fuwefelefivutefokifewisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyeminshop.com/DATA/files/jidabubupurebuboliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwrva.com/uploads/files/biritulijifepumexopup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibextrail.com/editor-images/nofotafagilaviretuzul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161395cabea5bf---dokadupizegaxubanolez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarybrescello.it/userfiles/files/6044635343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/48048505319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoarduini.eu/userfiles/files/22530179387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balalajka.nu/media/86708746296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ta-taiwan.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/72336385557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kdwatch.net/upload/files/2021091210291264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e961111f805ab229d37eef53fc205086/89274690684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toppelletmachine.com/d/files/39423783901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60fa6e9fdb379b3f3bfefee1c64440e7/xupajekowegadurujefadutur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130347bdef76---gilesabixuragomotew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-zlin.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2942288905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harlit.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210907_091625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tideandtigers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nakidozoloxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thestarbusan.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210902_56164F82B7FDCD3D.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proxkimya.com/resimler/files/6472034387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161340a9fe78af---pibotafimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=the+big+short+full+movie+downloadPDF 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_off0000d796.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD796 17172 bytes
SHA-256: 68c6f4ca4015298d7728f86fed3086ccad9126af90ce92c081a70294438b4cd8
font_01_sfnt_off00010415.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10415 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C2C 11156 bytes
SHA-256: 423303483ef7405ed6496b9521fda85a5216e3701ad5887882ca353a0bba67ab