Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b81f0f578ea8a3ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:38:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 715dc3407f25ce85a50cabe9b6302a08 SHA-1: 090276e36e7de67656621d33befbd2eadef16ff4 SHA-256: b81f0f578ea8a3ed4daaaf5042d5c6dba1c620ebf65b39e3e80b1379cdfbe7f4
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddhpdteo2bksbh0g3j57b9kr9j/jusavetuwijakirinodadaz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://e-sheremet.com/img/zawijukubigurapulan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/gonefuxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/53410476261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6v1n8ni9ms0u4vhf01cn1474ih/74861363018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilocom.net/webroot/img/files/41703459947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ordinate-ltd.com/file_media/file_image/file/73684492305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecosolar-energy.com/piceditor/file/93238881845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobas24.pl/Upload/file/87130726382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wcd.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jataw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krajinar.cz/soubory/files/74569642954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ok9e41l1m9i1ua80nuptolhbo/54325413277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0d2df15ed---gokafedudoziwugepizobaxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paperland.bg/uploads/file/balisitazokatavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f273904d27---fitogena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irishheritagesociety.net/clients/7/7f/7f3653e4c5d791bf76f28d2bf9929747/File/45264141375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pindimana.in/uploads/file/80373966598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gurkhasfinance.com.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75708453696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1udhubfgkpiel89ae3a727s47/35945935287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://btsoft.vn/uploads/files/pumegaxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/898ca525832bf856604211dc6ee5073b/gomaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a8c1795e6afe5328d3497f34d63cb5e/51591727587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=reflected+in+you+pdf+read+onlinePDF 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_off00011b3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B3E 18336 bytes
SHA-256: fefa66d0b417be6be32c48f9fc0b9865aedc848ceb3515fcbf714de3eebbeecf
font_01_sfnt_off00014a73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A73 10704 bytes
SHA-256: fa7ad983e7fbc596d4c7ccb7923b1a41864944de0a0e154d9fbd93f3e19a3236
font_02_sfnt_off00016328.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16328 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1