Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 830c71eb932155bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 18:25:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 9ec2f48cf56ac0280096508a8a718167 SHA-1: 40b3e625841a40d6177a517c4283c4f3e00c250f SHA-256: 830c71eb932155bb473b6aef2213f31685440740df51e956bca3271eb6c3a00a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating malicious content. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely as part of a spearphishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=puppy+chewing+on+grass PDF link annotation
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d34a8f76a7ee16230e601935bacccdae/zexapaxulilema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085f300a4195---tomevowisiduxukoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e3ba3dd875---18970217413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetfanini.eu/userfiles/files/70625680630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81dfa81f1fe7a9eae64fa93644a637a3/64549345474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092722a6ffe3---nosewefupurufigotijuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1857eb1a2efce4a48724f5db093981b2/rakebanosedodeliwipivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d3f7daea92cb0ddd0202defee081752/66857394635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed6d75ffd2496848bccdfab82f1600b4/nokegexemepudedujotorexag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/1622479091608d419350931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25395428fe4c5298b6743790d5c98c31/tinufamudazavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f7796ecbb---gosijojuwapedogatejip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cepsagibyachtfuels.com/images/photos/tikapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a359271b1eb---xukopizag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/56906962512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4145bb88a847eb4f1d14ae5768dd90c0/67571702304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bladmedyczny24.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f66c9704266ccd3ec104d41d82a285a/72567556153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070fe59e7f15---72843143444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082dfff9b005---tazewiliboziwegizaxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kujuguwaximenipamomaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be352814613---rizogazazejomewiluno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721c8528f61---wuvusifami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/rulalupufof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parklanehotel.asia/userfiles/file/funixozapuwi.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_off0000f6b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6B1 17344 bytes
SHA-256: 696319c0ce37675f4fe5e486c4224c14efb17c4c8c0da2a3cd494e458f9a9ff6
font_01_sfnt_off00012430.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12430 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 98710357696ba111adec99041a7df9b405492c3869b69ee48604c686e6573adc
font_02_sfnt_off00013d29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D29 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1