Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82793beec6c4d62e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-14 11:42:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 01e588d8955a6a0b9fc58e0f36c39b2f SHA-1: 34775e79e6ea12828b29f4e66a46f92d886e3d00 SHA-256: 82793beec6c4d62e4436364acf689e03d52df2a94cf10908bdccc84426154ff1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for initial access via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=transfer+apps+and+data+to+new+android+tablet
    • http://lamekatus.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/fewuzolidubi.pdf
    • https://holycrosshealthcare.com/userfiles/files/76997822603.pdf
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f4199daa7e46933774946674711ec00/20451503793.pdf
    • https://jasz-pap.hu/UserFiles/file/telaredude.pdf
    • http://nexxstep.nl/userfiles/file/rafitabefugufegepenowozeg.pdf
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161317816e02a6---61155375410.pdf
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/70399283925.pdf
    • http://vaithun.net/upload/files/23332133777.pdf
    • http://paneldeconsos.com/userfiles/file/70655803155.pdf
    • https://solturism.ro/images/file/fulada.pdf
    • http://baheth24aqari.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gemuzabenatuzasil.pdf
    • https://pokereshop.cz/data/file/6678154423.pdf
    • http://bjavc.com/filespath/files/20210904205957.pdf
    • http://xn--82ca1bkibi6eufn5bh1b7i3e.com/UserFiles/File/wewovuwiturizuwifawikagux.pdf
    • https://rentcar888.com/uploads/files/202109012118151342.pdf
    • http://ausafe.net/images/art/files/5859601990.pdf
    • http://raffaelecavazzoni.com/userfiles/files/14165231466.pdf
    • http://antonioruizabogados.es/userfiles/file/sefezovosufugo.pdf
    • http://kemenyseprosiklos.hu/upload/file/53869149420.pdf
    • http://wcsps.com.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gexasuletizixerux.pdf
    • http://alptw.com/images/files/penezesuz.pdf
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ad7ae89ab5---jajoza.pdf
    • http://yuhao-tech.com/userfiles/file/torazunigawodisapewokevam.pdf
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c6de3a1208---fegujodafabekorizelox.pdf
    • http://matsonconstruction.net/userfiles/file/81344460506.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d042.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD042 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e854.bin
c7c65bf11b8a3a78197922c0b4d46667b403299008df2cce3e5ed1f1c4eb38aa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE854 17012 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011437.bin
c1c5a3031aad3abf636717509e6f85166461c99dbf89fcd9edca450ea7073672
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11437 10680 bytes