Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2682a44036f847b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-08-13 15:49:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 8cf29ef6d9feadd135b128070e0fd82e SHA-1: d6ba683c3db0adfba98deca2bf8c112c57e6a983 SHA-256: 2682a44036f847b05f574dee8caa339617acbb8d1fa467b32e5df6bd3e748906
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a large number of links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of numerous links on disposable or compromised hosting suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination or to leverage compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 http://medicamarsala.it/userfiles/files/valejozir.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pascalparrot.com/uploads/assets/file/tesanejinudupavunoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d719fd80f42421e9c7f34f053af4ca83/sisuxulolokofibesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcobernini.it/userfiles/files/zexutedabonirikikumipidiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetobox-budapest.hu/uploads/files/ganelujaxinazija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/blot1q2j7gp6ohor64eatlb384/mezigubiwekowatidajex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nullemont.fr/nullemont/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63724599005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtshotel.it/images/file/35750554477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736e912ec69---desufononifudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milliondollardesiclub.com/upload_files/featured/files/58768055734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pjkconstruction.ca/images/file/96017137430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cbf04e6d17---lipapot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinic4lab.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210618083108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltaguvenlik.net/userfiles/file/xisixafamawis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportuna.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98320048361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihanoi.net/uploads/files/xewulopubekalexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a42b6f22a09---zubolojutivubax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ba8966a918415e94ce521800319c906/xawasijeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rosabrockenhaus.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98445266020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inhome360.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dorusexajazafeguxinogogub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b662bc77a40b721a475a88a1e66d8592/dovuxetudiralakugulesif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perchegouet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/karosubuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b4baade5a5---63232607940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=misplaced+modifier+quiz+with+answersPDF 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_off0000c576.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC576 11272 bytes
SHA-256: 77e7342184e743172f10f47ab805944e91e7b40a8ecf2ecf29297159b50a512f
font_01_sfnt_off0000df9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF9A 16548 bytes
SHA-256: 979c633bfe364611dacb7783718b1127785c84ee482eaf02717c26fb09c3055a
font_02_sfnt_off000109e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1