Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c81c415bce1a9fa2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-07-18 01:03:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f737c1d591692efb4fd669bc169b5f08 SHA-1: 760940c869718c2823a630a57024a92f367598d9 SHA-256: c81c415bce1a9fa28bc225466d8cdd6e9eeea12346a00e525b5f9877ed97f64c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

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://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb0b1513f76935d68a331c6110a99e8d/68670498611.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tebsc.com/clients/84181/File/35320253678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uzunlarpeynir.com/dursun/upload/files/85254714897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71946efabb79c870f2109bc130cd98d9/fubukirizirodiletawaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelonamedicalcenter.com/files/galeria/files/fonaxojisotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a8396d2ac---mulamigoganafetexizatol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37869dgaabocvks3h2ta9ivsan/bupiruvujitofoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/gajujugozajuriposasufog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1982thsreunion.com/clients/a/a8/a85c6617a93da1462bf6c3e7dda9c043/File/kanawemudatatefebodiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76ac622fcc039d0050b5a1470a52a657/gotazesipodorobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scheiden-maassluis.nl/uploads//file/82346913027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/vepatixogofimupufolelef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.motionmantra.com/userfiles/files/73317638948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095cede0f84c---worifizegonex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziva-muzika.cz/files/file/10723806211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67397237366aac2e6634c6fe4eaf3a9e/34214969846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqcons.vn/upload/files/58227989187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erdivigado.hu/userkepek/file/33581504787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f726be42f3efd25028907b519b694fd/gulovekilujudad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7efa16e07b---tipolozorezowad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctapigroup3.com/contents//files/68858060091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba0807b0ef4---23478308466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b82f3e7cb---jirasigoxolelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=you+should+have+known+plotPDF 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_off0000eb9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB9D 17260 bytes
SHA-256: 266b8fb310a9603ff2d534f3ce0207302f177dabf17b1c0a7f0a8e4c7c080a22
font_01_sfnt_off000118d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118D0 10624 bytes
SHA-256: c376fa0cec2d7841eb3385360555c2b0c7f827f5a9ff83f9140c6ecdd8718fc8
font_02_sfnt_off00013126.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13126 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1