Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 871ef21bdeac250c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-24 01:34:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 8dc05910634b225cef872e01867c679a SHA-1: 10f728f3eb39768dafecd5020d2bc5ec74edbd68 SHA-256: 871ef21bdeac250c7f55cfe53524e0d0086b14622fae84655463f3f8426fbbe5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific lure, but the overall structure suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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 http://elitsatodorova.com/uploadfiles/file/82420559844.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cauthangdep24h.com/upload/files/80557870018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/76289390140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smolninskayahotel.com/userfiles/file/fugum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tao-oita.com/admin/upload_filesfile/34729210950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://self-storage.sg/images/uploadedimages/file/74911555336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://as-eng.biz/userfiles/file/digixedulaxusazudejeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egymast-segito.hu/uploaded/fck/file/88744463291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fxlcd.com/upload/file/67276821904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pesonabali.dswip.com/ci/userfiles/files/zilovopogunoxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161347d6a5c7ce---pejozikuzobajusukuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7mark3t2-7aya.com/contents/files/xuvijofiwozopatet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askaudit.ru/price/kizisozosatikek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--fct8ml6mwue.tw/uploads/files/totujekulabubegaviruva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteprotectiveservices.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75511514381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarangroup2.com/contents/files/49057196277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayamedbursa.com/userfiles/file/magot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sexualaufklaerung-schule.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82959976522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com/userfiles/file/jutulaxiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1mu5bkdg3na31r1ov8a7e51r82/6619960531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benhvienlaptop.biz/userfiles/file/luzekoxakerusus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53954fc8cecfd1fe4ca1eac846e5b94d/1495938631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=hamlet+oxford+edition+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://forum-auto.ru/data/files/deradudetekinorobobidoxu.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_off0000d4b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4B6 10584 bytes
SHA-256: fedfbf4dc76980fc9c4e9652e51b832e4795739d7ba30c96dea51e0c4938fd50
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECC0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000104d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104D2 18464 bytes
SHA-256: 02086d7f5b7ff3e76f4abf22ad5d91d54cabf33dc3cc36d900a4c6232e811e73