Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81f5e0646baad832…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 09:22:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 48615ebce2f5a77f9053770ac6f96e30 SHA-1: 1b0f3dcd97cf1fab89d80e5a0f8f43454e219e77 SHA-256: 81f5e0646baad8325044d0ef8a80a9127207ef6ae2ada572fcd25cf96a0b2a7c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classification and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of urgency language further supports a phishing or scam attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and link farm indicate a likely attempt to lead the user to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hbo+max+on+my+firestick PDF link annotation
    • http://gmkms.net/upfile_editor/2021/files/11005143242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquehotelsolutions.com/files/others/79277323042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9c3e876424f5a46b23a48454123086a/85814858098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubytovna-krumlov.cz/userfiles/file/49171634970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614139d5243f1---26496171043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscreen.in/cmsfiles/file/39761063064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flcevent.fcu.edu.tw/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210908171708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kinel-hunter.ru/upfiles/file/35166196247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turismo-galicia.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10097984090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3fe85ff04a66038c6b184132d2bdcb2/novosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cybernet-ap.com/UserFiles/File/21456124925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/58881958649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/tipagakitodomewukig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suphammamnon.org/uploads/files/16582890468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umutisi.com/umut/upload/files/fowibodakimujikawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tolaniprojects.com/userfiles/file/lurobenaxisivij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lc24gfnjr1dmmtjktn3nn47d56/58655590547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f7ba417135---funeginojiwimiranobumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.asia/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/demazewidalapotigoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seltec.io/images/uploads/files/lojet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hugslock.com/app/webroot/img/files/98911864105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogwarts.ru/sites/default/files/file/47398003778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanoihome.net/img_duhoc/files/27788969144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anjingliar.com/contents/files/xejetovodesexalurukatonid.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_off00011428.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11428 19056 bytes
SHA-256: d89e243e5b8cdede11de82f71700b48e1670a0f54ff5bd999757cb73a09ebfd8
font_01_sfnt_off000145ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015dc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DC3 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 3c3a374a294f026476972c84ab0bed0c6b641f5976e6fe0abe28c8be7271d1b3