Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82280ac9beea406d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 17:08:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: dfc09189984259b9577cc0c7905f01c3 SHA-1: a27d26178d0ad1676495c2ba84eb24e54741a2cc SHA-256: 82280ac9beea406d373683b1dad61598d5b6b4f657e5b5039eb3aa3c04281fdd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised websites hosting other PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35a620bea51e564658e6acc7ab152997/51205726314.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://reclameindex.nl/images/uploads/diseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7d65e17450---wasogiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608abfadbb938---jexupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5f751ddb4---34613699522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7005c4d7c3d66bcd6f5f70bb258d7e2/57672216112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--b8qxb801j.tw/upload/files/reduvafedabux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc9d35b9a9---rutina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liweisteel.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fexaxetinemapozajogorex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2272fac764---75552658357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemeckystrakac.sk/editor_uploads/files/52253650924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vfrq3o9nmtt7e06fdcc065fe61/59040552543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/84939447321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/gisujixedorazipazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belitour.ir/basefile/belitourir/files/nukidosogejenotijejol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://co-wemart.com/careeruserfiles/file/dozosipunufebipag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exhibitionchannel.com/upload/wilewekupisujux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietfun.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06e77le01fb9uct9vblm1fckrp/66133762107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085eee22ea54---ludusexedexifedet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/vogibigesulavejarorez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghalemdi.com/userfiles/file/xixofujipijir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/maduwoporewuwibum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modnyi-buket.ru/uploads/files/jifuwavesetibiwamedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odesignlab.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/revozeduvokonorebonegikan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gifarlcm.com/upfiles/editor/files/fesesexomipojewiribof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/redojexumuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=girl+photo+style+image+dpPDF 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_off0000c3ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3CA 18264 bytes
SHA-256: a8868d09269256b554a8690a492208c3bc167c7733d3f68a53dc253e84d14f59
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2D3 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 4c8c66ee14b885fdc56cf5fbc4c44eaba1c54558d37998fed805ab2ffb05d678
font_02_sfnt_off00010bdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BDD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1