Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81ed193dd4966702…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-10-02 09:54:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 979394e9eddf18130dbd34b79bdc4bf7 SHA-1: 96c165f4f85e515d51fd0a1c7efe393ca0ee6e05 SHA-256: 81ed193dd4966702e7428f884dd74a4ba0059a4dd4abcfbc5ac2170aea543fe1
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting it functions as a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_URI heuristics further supports this, pointing to the distribution of malicious content via external websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=english+proverbs+crossword+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://livbiopharma.com/userfiles/file/98004297146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compsult.net/userfiles/file/43399771022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161419f73bd4ee---46186060875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seeyounow.net/userfiles/file/12228122085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madurastones.com/userfiles/file/24896895050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalabware.ru/d/files/lekibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manhchenang.vn/webroot/img/files/mixit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villadorottya.hu/uploads/frontend/files/15057362728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uhcp.com/editor_upload/file/pazovalomazezovediposulor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conditum.nl/userfiles/file/88784050598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnkls.com/userfiles/file/1631529219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d2042e28c75cfd3610a4f3bfa6c3398/65488583254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d524447bb76b75a0eb4312fdc4752d8/98069621242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konberdbio.com/upload/files/53427323958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.sg/images/users/00000000/files/laxofopelebomifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paliukenas.lt/i/File/28836038373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casasholidays.com/scgtest/team-explore/uploads/files/3190429504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/35238304714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148267967c26---99346037606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ariconium.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/foxobixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stphilomenaonline.org/userfiles/file/nalugefurewogikidukok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danangsculpture.com/uploads/image/files/bejumopelosavezizonudilex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16153a914041b2---bofojanafurar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuraniterbiye.com/resimler/files/62856841634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sirmamedia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30080368511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elemental-ia.com/userfiles/file/fatira.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_off0000b2d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2D5 16552 bytes
SHA-256: da6edc9ea2a106fb74a6db6635972f934d4fb3d2d1eae894ff63a06140067d87
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD21 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f538.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF538 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 51d2dc524d9a5faa77499802e9091a6c78d0909c20cd9e6e13bed5b4ee5b2e99