Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81ec331c8258b038…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-08-06 20:45:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: e0899a3c6c5ee4f5d51fd177d9dbda06 SHA-1: cf029c69b78d1216878396d068c2dafb96e43843 SHA-256: 81ec331c8258b0383184ea62f3f612cd7c829a20919d08e24710d3b869c105a4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to potentially compromised websites, designed to trick users into downloading files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure aiming to deliver a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://51-lq.com/userfiles/file///77778403655.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ty-universe.com/image/files/20210725_014914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euredit-editions.com/userfiles/file/62166522517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/nuzuluwonujewiregosevaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kperrylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/puzepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixturkey.com/upload/ckfinder/files/7737360822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/id20kpmjgoo84rvsufsrdhm744/55029724271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c187iguj9na1a54a47gq7enu2m/67068556949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e663471d5f---wizabalusib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d457aaf46ad1aece87189dc73071b66/4822306004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nexusmediation.nl/files/28401050404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morecoredesign.com/images/imageUps/files/sudiliwunoxuguzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laureysnv.be/uploads/files/vejegakipuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b548ea9d8---33899809459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/va68bbkfm71nq0rhdk685mheh6/kufaximazodumedumivam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/xigobomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8798cea6f55e3598eaa1c4d2936a2e61/44321766568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifeisartfoundation.org/sites/default/files/images/userfiles/file/93731181244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houstontca.org/Content/uploads/files/xitadilapitepesapuriwinax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maremio.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/worekuruwirebedofedurufub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bfe14073d3---7042550072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/352e1a198587bf4d9747ad416770d216/2723270548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=bommarillu+telugu+full+movie+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000f77e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF77E 16988 bytes
SHA-256: 63ef0350416151b7b6b7150e14d82c1c355f2dd505fb0821876bc9150c0b857d
font_01_sfnt_off000123c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123C7 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 0b7ce3dda98e6ca39d136c4aae61cffdd1c857c9ee2166a3d991f4a98d3535b0
font_02_sfnt_off00013ca0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CA0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1