Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82aea4ee23d2c22f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 08:53:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4c80a30f7cb3df7e367970cb0fdff4af SHA-1: 291c5d564fc7998090f44f88823669a2f49e9541 SHA-256: 82aea4ee23d2c22f86d71c56d4b85d0450cb84a63bcd0338569e038ac37899a6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting an attempt to hide its true purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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 http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a1c0e71ff---batolejazixafedidoxixe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://guclupin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xifap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097989652aee---xozerifuzosovofuveguxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pereplanirovkaoblast.ru/pict/file/53993147283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verandapattaya.com/userfiles/files/musizibarijozezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://groupkaishan.com/d/files/dizoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicare-darmstadt.de/bilder/UserImages/file/dakefuxagulajapotuzug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://streetnn.ru/data/upload/ck/files/44424906829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eca7784d5dc75d0fab9c4b6cbe5a38b2/63477650708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc.soo.jp/file/82146304880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/976fd60dbe63bab9636303761d0091df/bokabudumekasowuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/pepepumemowasekiwopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davebakeragency.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/609d62916626c0e4e3e6412445e82578/18765186819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10c107afa8020b17f417c1c8e9db6a1a/73855344356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h2906pp6k820pi7mpgsh50rt3j/lutejigemosar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dambi.pl/userfiles/file/zujebejofilagakunozul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160710f81e43c2---56821620292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/69254443372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b315459652a---35543479939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f116ab92b---29991440322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redemaisfarma.com/userfiles/file/vudadexoletaruru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5uusqqu37bh61ti7c00epitdva/24514720207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbairs.com/datas/files/fiwigexinomomagawon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fc744625fed7a55153800bb98d473fc/8620319326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa7bae0131b---gukidul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptogel2.com/contents//files/xepixeliredumujaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=saraswati+physical+education+book+for+class+11+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000d9d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9D5 11376 bytes
SHA-256: 564502940721638fd00432d17f7214947b92b9062629f586ee7aac3e169ea13c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f471.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF471 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010c83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C83 17932 bytes
SHA-256: 444dade16d9a113e645e57cd0f773d19ab853274730c43dda600bafa54232a35