Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82b7575cb55a2a1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-06 19:31:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: c5e21fb546d7949578caab5a51f89789 SHA-1: 18a2b5c2e11bdf48809e8a54ea8dd41d8115a3bf SHA-256: 82b7575cb55a2a1deab16a5f86d6010174fa8dcfe4c145e9662e60c873a788bc
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic further supports the phishing pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cce99ddbae---47370442443.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4f6f75932f---84762975749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaeram.com/userData/board/file/21326039835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429022617587542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clickkedai.com/userfiles/file/15940512322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77e6946d8e40f55bfe6bda59d0dafaf9/raxibikufodonunawinadokix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b7f1c1bde9---80667745537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/lesaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tt7k9rbnlosrkujmfsk3jjd23v/jegaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/718lrls2tikcgrbgdfh84cqi3r/xaxupalixatulavux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b7ca7234f4---2235592243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bancodevida.com/bancodevida/admin/images/image/file/pupupoxosizujamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e24443dc8e---tadesamazomijitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607173f02bce4---lofipiliwunonekivobupume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bf100998a3d7bda6dfd6d502074fe0e/pumukezutuzew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69458314cdb94af742f82ecbd992ff66/32735014728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spamsmsgiare.com/media/ftp/file/6276112778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/peresepup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hosungtour.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210620_2951F13AE23C8D2C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a7a508572---884860419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhorizontours.com/userfiles/files/wigukonusog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cb9cd5dffa9f460706798a376323f6c/fiputuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2c16f935bb7fe2343d96924c6a59eea/ladaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derkwoo.com/upload/editor/files/2198052913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=quickbooks+online+save+invoice+as+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_off0000e572.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE572 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD84 16780 bytes
SHA-256: 747f2eef3bd328c5786a90667409db786915d4e65d520e34098c5710700b2e04
font_02_sfnt_off0001292a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1292A 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 19fb47b0bbdb919d11370fa85c523e38a216fa99c3accf42631e62834bcf7bae