Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c81ba6974059ba98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-16 13:42:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ae5cb59c67a4a2d34f960d1503ce721c SHA-1: dd3b27c999634a98235b566de41853e8ce3126bd SHA-256: c81ba6974059ba987e0f500ce63cf0cdc073f184e99c186c5061289f18c74dc0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=friends+of+congaree+swamp PDF link annotation
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef5ec7e9826fe93af107cecbe5e65bb5/vofomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computer-rudolstadt.de/upload/file/vulanupexilire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844f26296d8---masarivebofitotaxodatenuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a771a110c---65343094005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe6041c905e9411efefa06ca38b249a4/pufusasuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvu12h.net/userfiles/file/dolabikisaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suseefinance.com/userfiles/file/nabikusiredonumiwenonuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shukokai-voves.fr/userfiles/file/fevepimabiburigutaxufijer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuitsdartistes.eu/images/file/fajusaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/fugibuzunuwib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802e3d76279---mimitun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachhigh65.com/clients/879402/File/15589912959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f410da924f---mebijorixele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panhongbo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/45243048492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adececbbc83---wekaredunerixidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mjak3tjppibvb20838fsu4ord5/venenoniparam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio-september.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5efdb47dfa213eb69711699d481e0c55/98374572466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40j89nv0n4cqoj9nv2hq7s87g0/xinedibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guilfordvikingsclassof81.com/clients/4/47/479b0a304b4cdce99dfe3eda73a59016/File/85147962130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073cad43eccc---67793049524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toshiteriyakiburien.com/uploads/files/genikodimutugijowusonile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67e4ffa3a1fc904449571186bf27f590/28761766032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmcp-avac.com/files/upload-ckfinder/files/70551489797.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_off0000ee9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE9B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106AD 18196 bytes
SHA-256: f3018862831967b0ba6d9370b601f1f696bcd98dec5db016f0a0f28d7e16153d
font_02_sfnt_off000134ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134FF 10880 bytes
SHA-256: b9d943af70f683e965d7db8ccdc22ea21e0759e9379e85c3f598b0fde86e7a03