Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 082ac30c6da935b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 03:44:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: de6ffafaa49e17b6f5e86a945d5cdfd6 SHA-1: 124c9596cd1561dfc5ce9f6d9380f442f6c22ca5 SHA-256: 082ac30c6da935b72ada4f8cbfb9d8c5b65d20f159116dcbd70f008f3e623ca9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting and the use of UTM parameters indicate a coordinated effort for SEO manipulation and traffic redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://bluetact.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/letalene.pdf
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bkd7iv0fkoggg0lk8comkfl564/jakenifakova.pdf
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2f3e9a90ce---63003898102.pdf
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abdad5b3a439d5cd4c1f038798e623d6/kuxutigutagole.pdf
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd6d3ea021f67833414eadc3c33df0cc/nemusopog.pdf
    • http://rhondachem.com/d/files/tobedinuxaziduduwufo.pdf
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/25778269550.pdf
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/defegojolav.pdf
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e1be7526e---4775704403.pdf
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/zovaxete.pdf
    • http://bk-plus.at/userfiles/files/mizudojukorudawolur.pdf
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/vazeladawopagosilimafosew.pdf
    • http://hayatteknoloji.com/webimage/file/57169245730.pdf
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aqrdsfu92hktiooq1idrsseajg/36515754795.pdf
    • https://tolgyesvolgy.hu/userfiles/file/joxowil.pdf
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160920cbe55a1c---jokezezegisazipezazipubod.pdf
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aac0ea0d18d---timixuzebagagabanufa.pdf
    • http://ardechetendancebrut.fr/userfiles/ardechetendancebrut.fr/file/42255418365.pdf
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db81a6f3481463971c33e1f3fc05efda/kuvezikixavamiwu.pdf
    • http://berallebags.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210520192825.pdf
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0441e5df6b7bcd41ceb7dac448b25b2/lukojijojisukada.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=mahalaxmi+ashtakam+stotra+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ddd0.bin
4da415044ce50e48dd78e7e7d7ec7be1b3baae07a73bd0d5bc4ff950342bdce7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDD0 17444 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010b43.bin
f19f8df35d3df24f7aa518696af34dad5a653a00b4d947552df1771f7cd4c7cf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B43 10712 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000123dc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123DC 16792 bytes