Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81eb9cf3330a3065…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 05:34:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 9d44106f4463bd31f7d56953b779b969 SHA-1: 46595a98561405577d44f73e6aa1d763918f8d7f SHA-256: 81eb9cf3330a3065068a7916d64aa49e40ffcb657e65a9df6c2c50c3bd7fef45
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or domains that appear to be part of a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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 https://lepjunk12.hu/uploads/files/26028217955.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://klpa.net/userData/board/file/20255638105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://articolo17.it/siti//usr/foto/files/jazameb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juha.be/_files/file/kotipijifidukawid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bennett-legal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vifemedigufaletob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdesignhouse.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/vupejujakomelule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4ee6d5b936---pebikapuxepufiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thieumaunao.vn/workspace/develop/uploads/ck_upload/files/40156884353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anma.pl/anma_edytor/file/45761683945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3fddba63d5e2207ffcc28c1e6da1d43/mufuzumuvogisememubazerim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc4e957e39---supokasix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clingac.com/d/files/kuzolosoxabovimoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jairdefreitas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73035206651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2dc5251bc9---33270252473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydunglenguyen.vn/upload/files/6f59ec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbd4831b6b7---midejufefifaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantusmarina.com/UserFiles/file/94366243725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3b58502b92---62946382507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adacu.org/userfiles/file/20210801145919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taperagi.com/contents//files/wubivejutisavefelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/53736315743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ccbed4960---keputupapused.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intelekt.biz/uploads/pages/files/wexuwopof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3f9405f4751dd960fd17603d9d7f49e/10439076488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamcc.com/UserFiles/files/53157336125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be1658dbd5ba1e75a3ea10a83b7aff76/15184735154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=24+character+strengths+test+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_off0001129b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1129B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012ab2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AB2 10744 bytes
SHA-256: fd81e87c335eea5c8aa4175e8ce7f50b80cfa597273e48eb25be9582d158a74d
font_02_sfnt_off00014338.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14338 18236 bytes
SHA-256: 3e4c475a6e0a5df21203c8d0c34a46112e65723e1792a1a7ceb53e8540299862