Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81e39a7dac9434a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 07:31:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: c6d5c92290194002f123c5a71d2faa9c SHA-1: 3c6a091e749f1090aa31239fd7e58cedf34d5fe2 SHA-256: 81e39a7dac9434a69d41e44e2499a099c5004888e4ddcac55dfa7ec47191c10d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. The PDF document itself appears to be malformed or obfuscated, likely serving as a lure to these external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hcdo7g1dfs6fr5iukk2j5jo8hs/pusekofa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/jivosakusibikufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcihk.com/userfiles/39541385751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvatoredivilio.it/userfiles/file/47185248177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29c1f24d5c13a0487a7642c72a50ff7c/30062309178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acquadiqualita.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/konuzeroxopev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aksukartela.com/images_upload/files/10997986737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c535e0a16---64981012370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f054a528550f4d5ae7640a325022f67/nagajegazezafem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scbczy.cn/up_files/file/20210630_014244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decom.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lamuwubuwuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jorkurojus.com/userfiles/file/pawowewig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.org/imagenes/file/vopidinajuratemizoluro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9614aaaee4abaa196ebd1f0c95aa3e4/49591975597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vbclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18572e684b176f61ec8cd0b08a7799d3/kinepusuwarijozogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artbynela.com/uploads/file/xewakipomapuwulox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d031332df48---jojatitovutuxugus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/13232648232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c37bc2dc747---gukuzutesiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210724031406144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rtvpuls.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rilijeputa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/848866974d2940e4ef910e83fbb78271/zivepepomijazuzizojuzaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607914a58e34a---21756980258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.taylormadetc.com/siteadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47993896816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmoretv.com/userfiles/6574653151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=last+will+and+testament+philippines+pdfPDF 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_off00011e65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E65 18208 bytes
SHA-256: e559611672f0e4016d491fbe7291980877c33655042237165e193ec26e62242a
font_01_sfnt_off00014cc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CC9 10588 bytes
SHA-256: b2c6536125056249c79a9b605beb80ecb2003f1cec2b1cb83afc486963ce1737
font_02_sfnt_off000164be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x164BE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1