Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81f9a9a4b5103154…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.1 KB Created: 2021-07-23 00:51:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 54f65cb75a1dac21944c24e272c67f1e SHA-1: 376d692970b3650685165ed902c1799c7aa5d9f5 SHA-256: 81f9a9a4b5103154ea1419156cad490c36807fc3fea716393ac9673e7aecaa75
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://arerp.kr/data/file///fuxaxipewoja.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://digidatadecolombia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f7ccf7e13efd505bc696aad46758571/zoviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesura.net/userfiles/file/95124376568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://211.129.1.225/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wibate.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/1018821221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f761a1793e---wubetegipelosuxuxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/rapenonedepirekaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://decoveinvestment.com/userfiles/file/manirokatipivamok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae739d2046d41ce444218cdd4b41a3d6/xolatawekov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnicadovolante.com/images/file/63148625642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/nematebenejajotomivonar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccarbotosani.ro/userfiles/file/fibadan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteyourstaff.com/calisma2/files/uploads/vegogifim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a8652eee1---jufur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96848s1ilsk9ink2lhsb552ajh/janisitinafaxukopobukusex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf1d0e712e---16039294708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0788d2f960d3e7a15bfc236f81399ec/metesez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanamihic.com//files/48017347404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc028.com/userfiles/file/20210717063746_l48sg2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korean-school.hu/hangul/userfiles/file/21430343914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speeddating.lt/speeddating/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xajajinizomimemeriri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=maslow%27s+hierarchy+of+needs+belongingPDF 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_off000127f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127F2 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 8280affc54fee2cc5c7ed4e439d9b8bc6dcda5555d37ee48c03101ee711f8031
font_01_sfnt_off00014163.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14163 18076 bytes
SHA-256: 774b7535e30c5b1f92e3a88d50014dbd6a6d82821b9352335c500b4e0ffa3b0d
font_02_sfnt_off000170df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x170DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1