Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2882ed4894645a49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.4 KB Created: 2021-06-28 23:29:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c4a100088905a6b366a244d5ceec6da3 SHA-1: f8d98941e080d313f1a5a750585eafd3ca22c026 SHA-256: 2882ed4894645a49b77434f9c42c320d1da1d8afab8353d93e85b16b4c216641
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 and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external URIs and link farms indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=overcoming+objections+meaning PDF link annotation
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4300adcd23---fimapaposezerolexulelipaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d29593f534---17491052986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8o06nrei0l233dos2b65rt6vj/doludavujuterusumujogope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a62346ba3---zokegizasavusopusat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210519130942802883066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160971b0ae563a---tumenujefijimopazitog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab72de47dffb62dfbb30454926f51879/62839227053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086d5048b55d---teremipogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/58102155524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/435acbc652c3518acd43f699d82fcad6/bagotoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrion.org/upload/fichier/vikedifupisine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ta4tp0gknicl39uj7vf0sq67m/difufusik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.proctoloji.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2ab52b07a---35626702880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htddienstverlening.nl/userfiles/file/guwufasisudofepoleduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapa-technika.cz/UserFiles/File/zutilipuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9es08h86na733ijs51ul09pl7/82655445581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/dobagujobererapuzunizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0386802001620224388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794412242af---fuwitejanizoromilisepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc610f63d52---jekevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klimagra.pl/images/wysiwyg_img/file/kivefidugomopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/fojaporixumetofuvesigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c12bbea2a---52846927918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822b12e0fc3---8338250534.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_off00011883.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11883 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 67b9cd5000c9b99ff3e73aab87cf64566b537943182debe06ad58b4603319ffb
font_01_sfnt_off000131b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131B9 17408 bytes
SHA-256: 60d54ba2bc3f0f03f07e87baf78d6052e010af2ef1d125197ce0b9152c52272d
font_02_sfnt_off00015eef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15EEF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1