Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a712215f80a7dae9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-09-25 09:46:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ce69c0d3189b7394c0e4be29253c7d71 SHA-1: 8301c5b7cdecc3a21f592cc3003d63124638350d SHA-256: a712215f80a7dae999762f964786b8583e12624cd746722a4eba411d4eca15d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, as these rules are designed to identify documents used for link farming and phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=badla+full+movie+online PDF link annotation
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161496f462cc02---vigusunurivapimuwoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healhumanity.foundation/userfiles/file/desipemimif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sigmabhp.pl/userfiles/file/76223887296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointswestliving.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tunopofodapirajebuwik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://licausi.it/userfiles/files/lejedajivefivose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swagath.co/new/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64735155881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maymac.info/userfiles/file/3954689164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diamantina-joaillerie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85558426688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210916_F70E5EA8D1DFD96B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashcruis.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e57bc4b0dfbec4be932e15cd18e63cb/75571508256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsgpj.com/upfolder/e/files/20210917190334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourhealthyanswer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lumutitamidibemej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sofahatinh.com/upload/files/25689889774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megatekspb.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/zeveboga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mehmetrasimmutlu.com/icerik/file/79636561495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elskup.pl/images/assets/file/56933877176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barbusci.it/maisUserFile/file/47644797471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/71304012743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614317ff35554---63671580553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseretochter.ch/images/file/51203100421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicamanila.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83030918021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tahitotfalu.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kemut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehedgerowchronicles.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jutumololi.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_off0000b1b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1B4 17552 bytes
SHA-256: d5bdd60d043d3d9bb832de02405c4e9e29528b6bb39e2be0f4104b087018268c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ded8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDED8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6EF 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 2e164673c86a4cdf6f225225ff343214bbebda3a556485376beea25c4013058f