Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f81cc201f55cbf3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:36:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 34d6736bbd342a43205a489be2a7f3fe SHA-1: c9edde33ab4f20cd726b2218523cd4c9c8266d9d SHA-256: f81cc201f55cbf3dafca5eb32854660ba0d1a60b6e59870996e5547c989fd319
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating its primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and the ML classifier's high score further support its malicious nature. The file likely serves as a lure to facilitate phishing attacks or distribute further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+camp+style+book+best+selection PDF link annotation
    • http://nuitsdartistes.eu/images/file/76323799075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesterek.net/tmp/gufidajorokerolov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handypipe.com/upload/74542092604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marta-galan.com/files/varios/file/59096116111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webbuilders.com/files/file/megujanowixunekatudokam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanagustin.cl/files/37406276092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945cbb55888---peliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/bojuzepubakawagid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smlstripedbass.com/home/rock/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59726475615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083361357b29---jamifuxomejadiwogufivazap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.polni.si/Images/files/zemixedet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-immobilien.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoninemimir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pagodatalk.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/83364189793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaragozalawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/95390381048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bwawarszawa.pl/upload/file/48205867797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/70458102937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/tapimapoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosadistanciayonline.com/medios//files/63327273900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/299ebcddb443110180144a448e177dec/25470042223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaf17bfd3eb94cbbfd8ee99efcf19c1d/walodepisedusobiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livre-d-art.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31409148861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0f289802d5---tozuwuligotivewuwozatowuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d9iiv9usej6uh9aig87h5bqe5/21436670718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16110e465896d7---93998602761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f6a61b58f---24721029562.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_off00012084.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12084 19612 bytes
SHA-256: 698e64f873880d2f0506acc8a12a8d6e92490377fa6836e8b6fd10f34c21718b
font_01_sfnt_off0001536d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1536D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016b84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16B84 10848 bytes
SHA-256: aedfb468bab06311fed91396fb0b1364bfe1733195f1d7b0e4a3152ab16057fa