Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81efdb040db2f39a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 14:18:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 16126a7cfe9474d047510f483c9e4799 SHA-1: 1c94059ff199a048cc58b035eeb09a5aa2d1573b SHA-256: 81efdb040db2f39a3c0b23e98271679718e3f66942b7f1959494c3d54916411c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The sample's structure and link farm characteristics align with known tactics for SEO poisoning and directing users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=puerto+galera+meaning PDF link annotation
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01fa0b7f3a7ce62549229fec2a033ec3/lutevutobafit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-2/20210502063427533231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lid4lhj8jm80695gde2d98gkm8/lazipujafumiruvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/024f45023127d25a2065323102bb0b2f/82594022293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/260a70a57af54a2e76c5e648d5984d86/xuzitixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfd5b9320e42ab3baad7f85318680cf6/talan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ufari2vq0gibbsc6nvolocji7o/dojasafukivuditowarejevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bbeb48fcc6---boxajufaguzivewita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b48960580f5---19029790529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t38ti3p7c92avp1lbhi8s6ehfl/27468073543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tort-art.ru/userfiles/file/fojirujalode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96c191467671b03a6ba17bca82e4bcc2/zifowoximazavoduvulorak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boothbayharborshipyard.com/userfiles/file/28412312175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609034f0c0103---54407928107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duda-tech.pl/dudatech/upload/file/kiwegexokojumakemudex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a380954c5---wobatateviziwanafezibato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e7c5109b82---zudawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945ccbc0b3b---miruditetotazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.minaakshimajumdar.com/fckimages/file/fajadododedaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicscrm.com/img/files/39433592841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konemara.hu/userfiles/file/bogumekapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9u8lc1g60tl8fef69f33t38v6m/binagabaketoxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/016f0e46c624fa4501d4498282a61f78/tizisujazexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/8918894348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mldom.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/52415258275.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_off00010175.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10175 10384 bytes
SHA-256: 1eb3ef9904049517a4d50ced20e7c8f6a2d4749811891e46596d93e9011bacc3
font_01_sfnt_off000118e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118E9 17496 bytes
SHA-256: 4d2c9647c82e37b73f6793f26c7e7d2717ff3d61d87f8161779157a0e8d5672d
font_02_sfnt_off00014687.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14687 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1