Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82264ff293a5118d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-06-07 15:44:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: aacad7868ae61c8821d59e290cc19cbf SHA-1: 8f63322273ead4eada07986832d70964b8b407bd SHA-256: 82264ff293a5118d89215616d77c6cef24265dbe7a7f6503c359eaa0c3239988
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file 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, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters suggests a phishing or SEO manipulation tactic to drive traffic to specific product pages or scam sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vizio+sb3651-e6+price PDF link annotation
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ef61235afb---76130128413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092cf64371d3---pinop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kryotherapie.net/neu/userfiles/file/norepelasamuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riggi.ru/userfiles/file/1719636949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q4gajbtic3gi2351vhl160724j/43842064624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexa.cz/docs/file/57952754751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/tewafomusezojesotag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d2fb1de56dc890f66a7cf63f7320d5a/vexosiretevudapeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/xugunavugas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769ea4ac0c6---dajamosopido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc1fcf97f6053f5477543ef8c04d2d65/wugetotixuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d097a41ff49e3c8736518243313f535e/74618259385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/904838c4cde3510e2ccb12c506dcc958/66651462573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/radawepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poolpoint.be/uploads/file/12367971097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdf6b23a676---7704236446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce114066e6d36004f594ad639a073711/jemowifetobasozanatizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro520.net/userfiles/file/1620879459846253002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000f31e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF31E 5364 bytes
SHA-256: df3d3774844bbad5ecd62a60d38dea3fbe5ab28463a1f65b9644f07a759f9885
font_01_sfnt_off00010588.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10588 10680 bytes
SHA-256: e1b687055cd0cb7489d18af8f01c551b983d489209810b724d4b49834ffa0076
font_02_sfnt_off00012a11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A11 16164 bytes
SHA-256: 6e3fbd491d8b71441998836ddca0d0c102716a221ea14f8143929167ad9a79b3