Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a716705a03f125c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 22:57:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 6f57ffc10f9e7fb4c9d96ba9f8eaeb82 SHA-1: 8a277684575bc5a40d3d6e079a923b67982ac946 SHA-256: a716705a03f125c09f1dc74a36f9159724f08734dcb987478c14fb8149d6d508
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=unsplash+app+for+android PDF link annotation
    • https://bwhe.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81255758744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairvoyantinfotech.com/demo/images/9198972078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isagenixmakessense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tatotubifurabikigos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienenaktuell.com/sites/bienenaktuell.com/files/file/godekolojegopates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingscolley.com/uploads/files/xanewotaponifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/28631378720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surmounttravel.com/userfiles/files/68209810727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r6m0966au23rkald7g65efev12/barekes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnercable.com/files/35555829976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1af69ddbac248a454413313e8c1ddd4a/35677607008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huabulaw.com/uploadpic/2021-9/file/2021090307555473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161431c38020d4---20825549450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shriayurvednagpur.org/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45309595989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210910_F7624B41A3BD12EE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://picinterior.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68891598345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ebenisterie-burette.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luveboxudipebavuwezeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ctmmaximoravenna.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1002906363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nikolabartakova.cz/files/file/jofotifitiril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ojg1olh6e535dv3qsjaunq3kc3/zukemabobutiwupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh-songshi.com/admin/upimg/file///gilewabotabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macro-e.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/33103710910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badrivishal.com/media/lexumewigaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samuiluxurytravel.com/Uploads/file/88728314877.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_off0000b40d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB40D 10372 bytes
SHA-256: f14552a96d421ab835aae9416120a0e2415b25d9be1bb6f0a6e5a8d15a652900
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB4D 15864 bytes
SHA-256: af9dbcddfcad78f49d39ee4c4e0e0c7c8fe4d2f6c764ea86e38173f4a2aa4a2b
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1