Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e71ff54497a6637d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:08:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 187a7cd7b193cbc5eda8ed0b2f8035bb SHA-1: eadb8d9ba6c96dc39ef3663850f890cb378a0ede SHA-256: e71ff54497a6637d2d3f2edc9b985c3ab51c878d7f71a1e4dcd4dec1f6396df6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics suggests an attempt to obscure the final destination and potentially evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d0a802fcdb7b60fb56e4ad7c514dcd8/79366741265.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/824fa4691000c30e9398ce6b6762255c/kinegeduwozofukoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yellowstonewildlife.com/tefekopuvetixuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.hk/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210822_77E6DAA194483438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resetimpianti.it/reset/public/file/43598558824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfa4adafddc---52545906104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/49039140815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7onseventh.org/clients/868256/File/77654717001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797a3099a37---logupozodigigodejaveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612b81cf294cc---20974224006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b54bdc9e9f4---47578492326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nmglyxx.com/userfiles/file/19930163232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukoilmarine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61710084333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encoregallery.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6e8c836c0802a5a9c5f6e6123c3890c/84444973000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takarasushimn.com/userfiles/files/59871497287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096da88e644f---4059928082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lederstuehle-shop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75341014839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shortguycentral.com/ck_uploads/files/bugosebiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicellbank.com/userfiles/files/zuwinodedoxonaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zgkimsteszew.pl/img/upload/files/tadubizirekokeguta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8115978e61---40994447855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhansq.cn/upload/file/zumadaxosabaduxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/67511982707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qnzar.com/files/xajiwanasesolaxamesuwab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+command+to+make+it+dayPDF 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_off0000df06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF06 17444 bytes
SHA-256: 0e2881a27ca3048a2c3e64d190e50041cb784be50a580ebf75891c3fe317227f
font_01_sfnt_off00010c6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C6D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012484.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12484 10624 bytes
SHA-256: c02ef1827f0d723383d51c6fc147817571b3cd9cd8c386fb0bb600ad03e36bfc