Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82160823fd7b06ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-08-08 05:01:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 263069f70b2168770faafb8fe89817ad SHA-1: a6a707167d487b7210a8ab937267dbb96ca8daa1 SHA-256: 82160823fd7b06abd35dfcfe816f3dcb7efa9e8eeff43f1ed701858bada40d9e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external links and compromised CMS upload paths suggests an attempt to leverage these to host or redirect to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://daiichitravel.com/uploads/news_file/suwaridovazaforananiwoti.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thementalhealthadvocates.org/files/userfiles/file/papafovexifojuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd3ea73e20e2944c9a1c42850eb43702/48760971376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/buxivivaxokik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujiya-la.com/uploads/files/70837443763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e021e0a3bedc2a5390c1ad7d0f6e20e7/xudizijaxuzijit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wjvanderheidedienstverlening.nl/uploads/file/movebajawuwodinexeloritep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b359643823f---tuxevobabeviruzegibulalex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fe3a05d27e---mawede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.net/upload/gekiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/81138395817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsalumniauditorium.org/clients/f/fa/fa32e32112b7cad64a7d7e78b95ed61b/File/40689295248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0c8c473460---15681313198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947d2b0a3a7---16878365046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd6689d5ce---jumej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a56a0fe4ccf---koboxuxelug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ilhi80fm2j9r078q2v1dtqv2gv/lexavitunazizilekosupose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/57269373042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2cd694d5dc---31474763674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voszveszprem.hu/_user/file/mijarozetan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a43b198a9b---nixeliwedoluxeguxawevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyqueen.it/userfiles/files/41948165279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilegt.mn/userfiles/files/muregepasamaxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=imagen+de+navidad+para+poner+nombrePDF 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_off0000eeb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB4 18052 bytes
SHA-256: d7c615526caa423cc7a11c74776d86d5be477ba8adf5f6b0d9df5f2bd2b42a49
font_01_sfnt_off00011cb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CB6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000134cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134CD 10580 bytes
SHA-256: b7a85fe2df8cd047de67c38e3dedbb6a888c24912edaeb55d4f2bf6f37d701ce