Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81d584d90891f293…

MALICIOUS

PDF

158.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 01:18:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 1eb5e71e6db534b51921039a775ac326 SHA-1: 3aa6c1b13f1118b1fbd36fa74977f49af63afd46 SHA-256: 81d584d90891f293c7ff595a8e979c893d797a0bdb1e292d25aff8318d126428
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of many external links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://naturallabs.de/userfiles/file/87377284502.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073a7ba10d17---virowefagibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dad7605dc4fb383d5c792c985a662dd6/32620315363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europartner2.pl/uploads/67855709009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhs75aa.org/clients/0/08/08eb77d093c5251d787cf05842b4a73c/File/52154634046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/57542030058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://najlepsze-w-polsce.pl/uploads/rujafabiruweje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a9d333d047ad9dd143730699fafc2f2/dogekujavutaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b19f117e54939df6e8faf5be6c8eb94/33216310134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea1627edbc8f750f2b210a75d881dd47/24541562149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/poxonareba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--knstlerische-biografie-arbeit-lbd.ch/userfiles/files/rigaresuzapesusaxejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6066bdde9d991407a47af6d98fd95365/pumebazatakedulotadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a84fe5f5d---dativupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9ea7034687---58661744232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608df9bb59660---dolutovavovusojepanegurof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a48c61701b3---zunekebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/jevobazexujus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c99ef74bf27b816414df9fa2f3eb9b39/41915520271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a19a17321cb---11308404355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indianspringhomes.net/userfiles/files/84996230725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ecec01dabc---84197388603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=pitched+roof+over+bay+windowPDF 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_off00020b9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20B9D 17700 bytes
SHA-256: dccd603312f036c4cf04729e991bea3a67ae4b08cc0c7974070e6f43b29f6c64
font_01_sfnt_off000239bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x239BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000251d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x251D2 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 0ef7fc3ef8c883550f9e787dd1b27508dbdc06fcab05d0474fe135d01bf228e7