Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82147417212d9339…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-07-21 19:48:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e3b408428b04f85c03791c7146d73745 SHA-1: ba539cbf5f51469bf2506bc67ad3f02962354e69 SHA-256: 82147417212d9339ab994e566e59905394c4de47782cc5e00114bd51a63eb66d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous URLs, many hosted on WordPress installations, suggests an attempt to obscure the true destination or leverage compromised infrastructure for distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5acf39fb5f---50456343124.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://summithigh75.com/clients/867147/File/18410419216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a136d5ae8a4---ladamevez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e13b6f647---tirejujose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tradingphrases.net/userfiles/files/47533769223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097bf73bed32---xosasotoluxezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lavaecucebrescia.it/file/5757350260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/6323829472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43c1cfe09823792fe71630e318ea998b/bozaxowitugemum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteworkerclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c8b895ebcce056855b9611bb380d312/xolekana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carea2plus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0610c05a07f5d1a525eaeb996732686/fexusaxalexotezevufuzodej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmost.pl/userfiles/file/rixaton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brkvinc.com/userfiles/file/76513035025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ne7c0t88lefd3d5lthioklhm6p/94902382566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/12252448849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samtle.net/ckupload/files/jibotefow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc54a27dc58---78773925450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/rugitelijonerafolifig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stjohnhomelessshelter.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a8e2e300ce6098c8699361995d5e2f4/13633260602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://98ing.com/upload/ck/files/20210703_042433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5dpcbrjnf25fn8uj3puf7cu4a/woxitogorefila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poolpoint.be/uploads/file/18582589175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0b2e78d33---54554402119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=section+36+1+the+skeletal+system+pages+921+925+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_off0000d174.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD174 16088 bytes
SHA-256: f0522937662ea3a0128511379f3ef1d92fa8f05becbf789726a38aab59015fb7
font_01_sfnt_off0000faec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAEC 12004 bytes
SHA-256: 58e1b2439bba8e2c08f7f621819d45b0f341831a9c747c8ad7b7c45a227a8191
font_02_sfnt_off000117c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1