Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82023232e601200c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-15 23:08:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d7376db7692da1657e385724eccec822 SHA-1: 2a64730a4962322fdced0e5115b4141022a9c02d SHA-256: 82023232e601200c345f5b0f1df4b1fcba3d14b732c1654d6ce56980080f08ff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b5020bb19---53103056362.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://massageindex.nl/images/uploads/banexetabufifogedak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160825219d1fba---64362108148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espressoperfetto.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/19759380955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a42f3346934706fbbdb2558335064c57/83548637869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/mekafolanavikub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rdb1tspscda3nc7trja6qe0gog/rubafadikeromamupitivikej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/nixesajumujokadotik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6565d9573---72144304922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/68291963369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1qot1g7tqpipe8lthp44pvav24/59934070810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/depudawepuzidufirikuvuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed95395a053---37619051664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleshuzataruhaz.hu/files/file/lidojumamedojefobatetuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfab3bd7e56506c8e68c09c1b30e98f9/mapewuxisuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proartgaleria.hu/files/files/fejudabojuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0ae6995a0---56726329878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/zenekoraguregadexagabop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/97964537633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bouncebodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/jonorujumefow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c13ac87367---52206189962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f04a444be5---delenerapufim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coffeetuanvang.com/Images_upload/files/21481520025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+answer+what+your+hobbies+and+interests+arePDF 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_off0000f8bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8BD 17284 bytes
SHA-256: 26ae8defdfadab7f4427e9909ca2eee4a316f143d9b1f51f435d81df216a4b2c
font_01_sfnt_off000124fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124FA 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 62f50053b9f20e64ab6ede9b5bbc29945add6936ca17290e74ffdb2b0d4fa644
font_02_sfnt_off00013d9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D9A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1