Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e71baf7c4013eb23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-16 09:30:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 387c71432e6ee225774ed85793d68049 SHA-1: cf2d217090abc201c07db4cb59e322d35cd06599 SHA-256: e71baf7c4013eb23274c78b19f7dbd26cc5cf6262054193d91e522f7d7aa80c8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple URLs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, indicating an attempt to deliver a secondary payload. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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 http://tecksco.com/upload/files/xuxeni.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://patidarpalanpur.com/web/k/main_admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32977795539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhjpharm.com/upload/files/pusonusozuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138310a64eff---jujoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keiba-like.biz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lipoxiwuvori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sake-tori.com/images/library/File/13989158605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familiehollander.nl/images/uploadedimages/file/99556266712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gelinyuanyi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-5/20210905223407757764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pazarziraat.com/userfiles/file/vofatofagigexukalam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fibertech1.com/my_content/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lovevuxufuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccjsc.vn/images/uploads/files/23940120040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xenangheli.vn/public/files/kobizusemotetudaludo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diegogenna.it/userfiles/files/34246353969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dezis.ru/uploads/files/23249903381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-ookuma.com/js/upload/files/39903862835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.poolsrus.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66131009724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7mark3t2-7aya.com/contents/files/josapabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preiss.at/upload_files/files/xujijijiremegojuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d6a3fbf7af04a42fdd4ca8f3bad5c9b/xumelezelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onsijsselstein.nl/userfiles/files/mapudipiguxeviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fleuriste79.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11434449770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettosirocco.it/userfiles/files/koloropax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhongresort.com/img/files/97390868778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614118091c0bb---bipowalid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antropolog.ru/userfiles/file/zawaluzewad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=view+hidden+instagram+profiles+appPDF 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_off0000c25f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC25F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000da76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA76 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 327cb503ee930140fc784f0659a361a50cdc5aa65fbf18176f2cb9687ee7edd0
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B1 17108 bytes
SHA-256: 2f5951104bcf35d067bc7fe06e91a7a240c4f43af3b1a517d95f2f96c5e41f62