Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8282120205fd9161…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-07-21 04:03:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 3a5e231c35ae965b1924a2b10f65b1d9 SHA-1: 192aa2604b6919d2a39c6a29191e916bb788c18e SHA-256: 8282120205fd9161ae9f89a03886e40cc4d35516b4f6fd8c197fc94d5b5c5d9c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of numerous links pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, combined with a 'download button' lure, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier also assigned a high probability of maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 http://ranjitabiswas.com/userfiles/files/xubituve.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021062605425473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noospc.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/vitikobiwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbc4e194f5f96ff692ba7dbdd763ac2b/71786195266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///damajadabeduxekisem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietspices.asia/uploads/files/83345092801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acril.ru/ufiles/files/jiritewozukorulurepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bqi6p72g3tft8ak0tb8gjm0u5/gudofapagipuzazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/7743990480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e776f9182194223a48d23ab2631af24d/45308947234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4155607dee247c233104bc68ed454c1/31214531686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zerosquareonline.com/file/12463871115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carsen.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/xagodal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e380cc8b6---getekarekopeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentali.cz/files/files/kogekefosixawesufaradaweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49742ebe6e2309a7c9c7e0b0d47b0a35/kofixikewovijobirujuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86ce089c636c632c838c473c9740daff/57899967737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/riq4er8a72ngh2ff13u980eb7l/20650718687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/xagojotizejexivufimivoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computer-rudolstadt.de/upload/file/vulanupexilire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m4ib341ia2gfh51eg12hkq05dn/tuvisabedewukuzilulumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073fc4679d31---98693141384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n8c9caj5khppd6vcr6ohobjtb0/zexuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=another+name+for+hard+diskPDF 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_off0000ef36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF36 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001074d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1074D 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 7965817de203d7f7cd740852eb55e7fead864cca8b305dbad4dac91eebf9bd05
font_02_sfnt_off00011f86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F86 17488 bytes
SHA-256: a050b9f14960145b9a3952b340e799a86efcfeb8412826edcebae393a1df49e4