Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82741ae245e89da3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-09-25 12:21:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 47e0fec9fbccc5634726d7e8cc09d3d2 SHA-1: 6c2a7a5bdd8a2c44521c971134dd2182731689b0 SHA-256: 82741ae245e89da3935037b7f0618a0efff98b9c9c4e3caa74fff932ca9d6b20
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple other PDF files hosted on compromised websites. This pattern is commonly used to obscure malicious intent and distribute phishing content or further malware. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate maliciousness, likely related to phishing or trojan distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4a005fedcc2051d1de50c3f58b6ab1c/juferizitevidagak.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/defub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsbulletsandbrass.com/userfiles/files/pesibowekenisasumixozijax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fb328477c3---mokisejimevakitularo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f1e14cedf7---gosefewutozisemawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namkhoabacninh.com/images/files/luwosodujidib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d33f13e0917f62d15a23608e20ed89e/jexulina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikeid.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/goxusisutubewetaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ninda.vn/userfiles/files/gorasosiwumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulepmark.hu/nyebu/fulepmark/userfiles/file/31119523401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immsac.pe/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/mixanujululunoteka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioscoponi.eu/userfiles/files/22224531625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614590804493b---15789502409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135e508647cc---10236893223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccsl.asia/files/rujuzarofofenadazaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonvoyageindia.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/damek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leanuslab.com/UserFiles/file/refikeponuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polesprogettazioni.com/userfiles/files/xegozapakivusez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138cf387bf30---tefuxipokiwezijegudiweji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp2.com/contents/files/tirujanajedosuzesodafiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614cf2cc8b62b---zovif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifap.it/images/file/48204959448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haozuowenwang.com/imagefiles/file/toxogakisabenupepigebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=attendance+sheet+with+salary+in+excel+format+free+download+pdfPDF 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_off0000b3ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC11 16280 bytes
SHA-256: 8c15522378d91db0e33da0a6dd2de13c1f5cc67ce8acc79a49997cf5c0924bac
font_02_sfnt_off0000f5fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5FB 11168 bytes
SHA-256: 836284d73ded431b8954b82fa2849db195ea0ab31295fa1b6c9169dbca27f313