Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e82a92e779cb18b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-07-17 12:15:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 270182d910f94d7208f147be5a7ad5b0 SHA-1: b75f0f062ed606883683488021a9cfccdd22eba7 SHA-256: 1e82a92e779cb18b68be71e7b9a8d197df54f0f012624c37e79a0375aad4db60
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a pattern of using link farms on potentially disposable or compromised hosting to obscure the final destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8dca287d01---6815142947.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/61943903206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607489c5a28f2---35215695682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluestandard.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31669832001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/20829771413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dc5cd3b88828d69a97ee522f794f099/19957139326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fsi6jsvue6g47pa7mblsnqrm0o/80840757724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08ced852cb4b0496c76a1e308c0e399c/84234638234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sy-smile.com/upload/files/46356445039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da8aa58ca2e9617fe210160e65ea13cb/73818500361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r8c38rahjqle8kv90s8sv9n2k6/xigos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a15bbcaf014---76756725630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtsskzy.com/userfiles/file/527721488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872a6dd51a7---72037495686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c2c09f7fbc1c108e73fd971918aca83/89692879378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/8438757245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a2b434118---bejuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c39833195---vekorebudukibolas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0975af0ff7---27185339667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/307880014c083e562aa252cf0ab9425e/felaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dynamic1984.com/user_file/file/jugolelanilezagiwum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0149d1d743---pigepigiviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaurrieta.net/USERFILES_JAURRIETA/files/dexipasejufawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb48a51948e---pomipinudoxenifofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/jutelap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rasathantrananotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83523371911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733d04f2e05---kigesip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=the+perfect+day+formulaPDF 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_off00010822.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10822 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 15a7a140aaad49cc41a6b97eb332e06fae45bc39e758dc24e596ea780b80d129
font_01_sfnt_off000120bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000138d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138D1 16776 bytes
SHA-256: 9fda07a1e2e5befe8593b5ad1355d4662c737d40dce1712fde0954515d6c91d1