Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82a0fdc8129689da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.5 KB Created: 2021-07-06 07:55:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 75b2a3038994cf2f8e8a18b496b3d6ac SHA-1: 175a9699f3f4379b598357ee41836d83e6650cca SHA-256: 82a0fdc8129689dafc9e98e05cf807bb806c8d2b29b21bac74b45974d39bc97b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://yepsell.com/userfiles/files/27226196497.pdf
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/626e4a5cb78b3769eff382570b304d46/55986377977.pdf
    • http://saintthomasmonrovia.org/clients/a/a7/a774d5b45fc75aba9c6fcf07501e1e58/File/97840373326.pdf
    • http://harchovyk.com/userfiles/file/74025444845.pdf
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/70814375674.pdf
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a590539465e---desezeniju.pdf
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/106799b10c584e310aa23858039ed917/54146299447.pdf
    • https://abeess.com/userfiles/file/pagimirisek.pdf
    • http://www.blueoak.fr/image/file/35723384817.pdf
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c405627012c90ca6ceb08a6ee421aafe/koxafonoveril.pdf
    • http://khiconghoixuancong.com/Khicong/admin/userfiles/file/degajavoritulidumuxarekil.pdf
    • http://kotolantopeni.cz/file/26674480435.pdf
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/matikafu.pdf
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/069f832f496e7602776184ca08e83edc/29345808687.pdf
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7091acf46da3383507f7a6c2c794aff6/54229604849.pdf
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fabf526906a1d4dbefc84d045b7f8bc/xexuxarojofo.pdf
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210522115918.pdf
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085914b2219e---27532467446.pdf
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aff5121341f3d262f26579560d2ddf7f/rimiruk.pdf
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47e7dc2c4f57af040e1baaaa574024d8/dowapitegulukagunos.pdf
    • https://progin.swiss/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gulisadazovutafezawuke.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=the+giant+horse+conch
    • 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_off00015df9.bin
d647cf219ff3188053e5d502b30147694f61b3a9ed09e749b513141fd0585b18
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DF9 18204 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00018d7e.bin
99b5a1f6872ba00f89fc87aa9907123152103dc8cd8024831fb8efb48b04f793
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18D7E 10428 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001a51f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A51F 16792 bytes