Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81ca0a36bfb667ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:27:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b33d5029e6696f1333af6871c59c22ca SHA-1: 959e1dc5d5b00cd81e4daa2127a061a6bda8fe27 SHA-256: 81ca0a36bfb667ca08c9cc5c74754a18ae229c85773ff70b827ee609d30b76f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as a lure to redirect users to malicious or phishing content, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7l18bt83i7ggmhmbiie0459ho2/ragenorirovifokube.pdf
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1529c93d52b03669cfe8613af35e16e5/61617135484.pdf
    • http://mytmbc.org/fckimage/file/tisukanetekolapuxiwufekeb.pdf
    • http://kryotherapie.net/neu/userfiles/file/ruvadufevosiwuvujutajaj.pdf
    • https://tsolisp.com/files/file/puvipokibamenavim.pdf
    • http://www.dreamstoreonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65072152396.pdf
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9b6051a20bf798f321423ba38067e2d/88007349594.pdf
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c132b39e62f---menevogu.pdf
    • http://www.gleason.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15665949516.pdf
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/477dfe5827a3bf4a4b7782623a1a9c16/jesase.pdf
    • https://ehotelgateway.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/nafetadoranojulonozemeja.pdf
    • http://abcbyspu.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/gobezub.pdf
    • https://panelshock.com/userfiles/file/67434578157.pdf
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8hu9t8oprbiin9b0kentm0ji95/27201039932.pdf
    • http://www.smpnuenen.nl/images/files/vozalasewiwirizow.pdf
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de841a06ea1---71186425019.pdf
    • http://getsolarnj.com/userfiles/file/12604361348.pdf
    • http://cgpharma.in/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70471112686.pdf
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/fasuxep.pdf
    • https://thefertilizergranulators.com/d/files/mibasiwesodutozovas.pdf
    • http://hakkabrothers.com/userfiles/file///tiwafasolefivaziwazuji.pdf
    • http://2478.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kekikamupufupuwiwufoba.pdf
    • http://ingmarcofaedi.com/userfiles/files/99449198787.pdf
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/vemamolafajobigara.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=commercial+food+service+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001140e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1140E 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012c25.bin
871cd4353851f4be086e6ba753eb47915986c77c137c70d0e4509c92dedd39b5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C25 10676 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000144a0.bin
8e05f7aca74d83076c46c43f658850c8d3ba630263eb5067d331fede73440099
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144A0 18140 bytes