Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b71315ea18542866…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-06-10 04:45:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 5d31d7a13609b10708b4277c6efb4953 SHA-1: dcb9bb2656204632dedd6a23231348a908696065 SHA-256: b71315ea18542866c652b05dc40cad7562e0987ca7e9517c230dd305b4010cd3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it is a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to game downloads, likely a lure to entice users to click the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=naruto+ultimate+ninja+storm+2+free+download+for+android PDF link annotation
    • https://www.anandtirth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45365aa1ptthcs2bjgirua2cn4/mazositamuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b5621d920ab---92532632668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/66251111844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/174a2a3ee18703cea4fc7ef4ab2bf1cb/gexike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a91ek2kff312khdg2uavlqfph/49500205318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/400ecc4726bf3938e647e16a37b1ac06/7190999110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd96ff2c0344cd05085aeff53206199a/tozirojifon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dee3cdf764---22177633685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608611761ab7f---peterapujerevogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ec43fa89ba---36522190592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bacdfe1d156---dinofik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609857ad28ba6---kalobeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160727948bfd4a---14841984813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8r1v5gl2btgf89pfeo6lv8n33d/20487332382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc87050cfa---vufamofifanizeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eece.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEECE 5324 bytes
SHA-256: f15d2986af4977292cc729ebe51cd8e60c8705db640a00862dc66a94be066bb0
font_01_sfnt_off000100e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E0 1800 bytes
SHA-256: a36eee06fef6ce219692c4ec918276ac99413e4fd1e3666e4031624f9289d620
font_02_sfnt_off0001096d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1096D 12020 bytes
SHA-256: db2f20289be025e4400af0f84b2ba06486bcb019fb1f683544b8ea572cee3d8d
font_03_sfnt_off0001313a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1313A 16180 bytes
SHA-256: 7c776e5eea023699f371194d12e6bf94cc07d0f218a2e329aa39d16e66640f7a