Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 782ca022213aba89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-08-10 22:13:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ef26f5128f79877a02fc1b55b1be5249 SHA-1: f3a33a691d5d6cd58272891e00dc8c4bf447f9e8 SHA-256: 782ca022213aba89a517de3708ebfca5371884abd575bbb6b79269dc9cdc1549
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and link farms on potentially compromised sites strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+use+screamin+eagle+pro+tuner PDF link annotation
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8a29ea2019---sokuwesarozikoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rgqmp1aor6qrs49l97gufcnvbi/gosowumonenojev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaodantanthaison.com/Images_upload/files/ruvoganezubes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massintech.ru/img/outer/files/54623044840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stitesattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/40537927111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meadescafe.com/userfiles/file/47561802166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/88909303701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56ecb205baa4ca0c3738b41b93ee2f06/47594655914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4qeaq86ql9gifu719oueeljp3/pujuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solyaris.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33570373720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bugaboo-buffalo.eu/UserFiles/File/5018290931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifemartrealestateconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7pab6p5qas4i4fdj9gn8dtdme4/lomexorixegaxufew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shiokuda2.com/contents//files/sebuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hauptlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jarelexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/ninidufimemejowenub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/34035372172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db034403e1---90326167178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hn77bi0st9hu26q9ujg6bi5m06/12480938547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/280fa908a52f66e51599118a83954b74/54239158387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vzwsportenmuziek.com/content_docs/mawiguzuzoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrayamed.com/userfiles/file/genobekedalanavadigututon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de3565adbb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49b809ed8c---kixatukedixopisebipesup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuanfuconstruction.com/ckfinder/upload/files/63594679477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proektasis.gr/admin/spaw2/uploads/files/77837612520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.solarwindependence.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/napufenepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akademibt.com/resimler/files/fotefamopunatuwejo.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_off0000eb0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB0A 16992 bytes
SHA-256: 38e174b89e8a8477851f78e47c5ebe1b0450e39db500c534bee59a32706a361a
font_01_sfnt_off00011744.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11744 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F5B 10896 bytes
SHA-256: adf490bca466422e5516da4fa28777eaaee9713653b29ad7fe79f43a014e55e1