Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81ceaa9c4709f5ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-09-09 15:00:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 48c0b9773274d19ff37bcc98a9c7dc51 SHA-1: e479fbaad40efc2f01d63f3aa9f457f6a4e30c99 SHA-256: 81ceaa9c4709f5ce134ba8416dd25ba8eb23fab1b5608b39de7100e0c2837756
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, embedding numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters suggests a phishing or SEO manipulation tactic to drive traffic to these sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=libro+de+mecanica+de+suelos+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://huzatfokozo.hu/editor_up/58318519400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steakpluspizza.us/userfiles/file/69572008683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themadthinker.com/temp/vinney/HTML/userfiles/file/99654475534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134cf243e432---96344829508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnnjhansi.com/userfiles/file/zetulitutito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613985ead91ef---pirupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gppacdatabase.net/userfiles/file/53620740107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adeptos.clevercloud.pt/images/items/files/28590839067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/emka3sl910fnj5qi4h13sptqfg/10638133341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martas.vodrsport.cz/uploads/files/90838502397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educhina.mn/editor/files/gekarepapotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.de/userfiles/file/deduwipemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xindeshiye.com/uploadfile/file///2021090917203070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnc21.com/files/fckeditor/file/19651579966135546d3bd05.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/noridefuzudoxojelabupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://word.mn/uploads/assets/rozoketonimuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitchelllawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/50221933033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centralcogtc.com/uploads/file/berux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flims.atelierleuthold.ch/userfiles/files/93418570639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijfbacknumber.com/editor_up/xunomezavisamujoxivaleno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landonintergroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42205348212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01d4d1fd6c165fe0bb066a9331aee998/25596179804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satakantaresort.com/user_img/files/83359558981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80f9ba9965780c76e6e8620e5141404c/lovoputesareferitenubala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinice-rasy.cz/files/file/43145100552.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_off0000b9e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d200.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD200 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 0c9ce4bb46a1a0dcd694a8121b8d5c7d7ad34391c3ef7d84255c4dd761acc876
font_02_sfnt_off0000ead8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAD8 17212 bytes
SHA-256: 5b9cd5687a8a170beafaa2706d0aa7d0cbed03b3ca37694f27b4c30ca05df2ac