Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 981e86d19c3aca7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 21:51:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: bc55dfa1fa3968ac3548e6df0496e53f SHA-1: c8bd7940709d204958ff16dea7eba6aa426db297 SHA-256: 981e86d19c3aca7fa893678cc3c757346b5e24b4214ff047e848d675d49b29c0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous external URIs, several of which point to compromised WordPress upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL findings suggest the PDF is designed to lure users to potentially malicious sites, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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
  • 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://razredna-nastava.net/files/86951904337.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chinasoftcore.com/userfiles/file///40351002941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f779490184780dfc6b4349e86a896e9/68639928739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korzayithalat.com/spot/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/31680864979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brette-animation.com/userfiles/file/97004539303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ee9909fd6---xepipefalelopenudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://learningsolution.ca/userfiles/files/80080018483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/38255289613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h4h4vul4hcmni597b2c5qm0gc3/sewozanavosokazenevufexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bs8952qgvc77tuem153uvqsi5p/dezibipezokowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-biohealth.com/files/60760189488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://office-agglo-larochelle.fr/userfiles/file/wijozowuxadilulosekokujog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c9bbc2e32---remeguwusat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--szabowski-tub.pl/userfiles/file/falaxiberudazadukudug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heritran.vn/uploads/news_file/5474268442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/40367773722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dydlhx.com/upfiles/file///2131560086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24628abf8806b19a9711e13f8d9d4f79/10833181347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/surekabazuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fedb05d7ce522d2082b2cad599c1852/siludokuwidixutowezil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad38b8b641cb99dff6d99974d719688c/54866259778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samtee.com/admin/images/file/25664486318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kad3ssmsdpfv9hqleshgpim2vo/futuwekekuvejasivujasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://effektfilm.de/files/file/60405150711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=great+answers+to+tell+me+about+yourselfPDF 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_off0000f2f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B06 18220 bytes
SHA-256: 01aad9ae1d80ebb588aff43f702bff8affed422d12a1045a14926bb2de09992f
font_02_sfnt_off00013aa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AA1 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 570864652deec0d64db42fdb3909cc8429ff04aff755a43cbd5792de1b267c9d