Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81eb538d2666ba28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-08-07 04:20:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 64fdfaaee74810afd93c6da177d578ca SHA-1: c9bbc423c6d6d685b8114cf455b479d346b735b2 SHA-256: 81eb538d2666ba288f25068332adb33b70314e56637993905db12a0f355f6634
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=aia+a310+bid+bond+form+1970 PDF link annotation
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097d29cf1db3---89340394444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d371130e57---bodaxumefobenazufatulesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unibel.pl/pliki/upload/file/48508983298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/41554421831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8n6q9ec5n9gc63ekc4e7r0uu2i/nosidenokowokoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aead3da7bb---27719714229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i1if179b3b40v2vf94qmhk8s62/jevolatasobegumiwawob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba9743f297---kagagobobowomofawuboloxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32c537775a7dda18225e55740fb30405/xigugedufaxidoxexugumat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightningriskassessment.com/ci/userfiles/files/78888204020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021070511542939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamessham.com/admin/usercontent/file/30326633349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://betaempire.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/94992673486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c4db5275b---63669553687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/720go6137h8rd8k7pd7u5fi8cl/jasawobijubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c577580bfc9---31012387973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fbfd1cbf23cdec50168296f5dc6ae7b/64011385437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/wadumutebim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilalyapidekorasyon.com/userfiles/file/32142114910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bachova-terapia.sk/images/file/67011796222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1c1da5714aa15dd0eb58ba73adabf78/xipipalowesowuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incense888.com/uploads//files/202108051135552125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pobierzplik.pl/uploads/files/xuteloxafusarotaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardarnoldalumni.com/clients/a/ad/ad1dcfa6f69ac51e3fe6bec18f6cf6d6/File/kataj.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_off0000cf4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF4A 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 2e46b2f2d713eaf10418b0c7f05b4a7c217acad981579f066f2278fcbf53edae
font_01_sfnt_off0000e809.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE809 15016 bytes
SHA-256: 935f4b43d44202dc935d2b10f6c6fedf6d7c082b3556cd948ece38f88f0fbce6
font_02_sfnt_off00010e46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E46 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1