Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81df1e0df8ae2660…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-07-20 12:54:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 84dc3c0d5e3b2297f1ca382da6d04d0d SHA-1: 31ac7065009078cfb8eace09e39ac8a9c76a3b7f SHA-256: 81df1e0df8ae26609a4209447ffe6bcf274021803a380a566b75a3953b7ed931
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a visual download button lure further supports its deceptive nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://vietxetai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15jp4g6i5nvq4o3ur7r916m8gq/1922505812.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinshow.org/FCKeditor/file/japirutubobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095713c13fdf---49364098190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/89010754772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitapkapla.com/upload/ckfinder/files/99967290945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/33195831456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9mmdbipgdkd74ejv4tpi2t4ee1/5785941999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tulsamemorialclassof71.com/clients/84987/File/64628032353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhadatonline24h.com/Images_upload/files/56635387968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harekatmemuru.com/images/Media/files/wevaxazeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d197c783bd457b90fb98f12b4c0ab5c4/denegadafujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab627038852---vobewubibozupotan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duocthientam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/zusej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daivupaint.com/img-chamthi/files/kiwejovitisog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/relipasipolopimidunatir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c364ab76be5bd6eb554c715d6559ebe/4974431747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagnosticaedilizia.com/userfiles/files/22415758088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c5f9816b09---mebamalivaramu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b3e476deee---fesidexavined.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mjtr3mh2sogk960gijv3t3u4h2/92634784853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canevinclassof70.com/clients/6/6b/6b8b8ee0d314e59372afbcb75100d768/File/1920531293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkyoukais.com/Images/Media/files/18071771988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=fifa+14+ppssppPDF 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_off0000c94c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC94C 9860 bytes
SHA-256: e0b6e40863c6509e394c637c5e4b37f9e57f55ee61a2296c53a964ba1c067a54
font_01_sfnt_off0000df1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF1F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f731.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF731 17644 bytes
SHA-256: eae31cfdabc1da77b4e88d345f26370acbd971054a1c6bcfbc1cb4e73f129d03