Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82b8f05f29ca01a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-13 17:29:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: ae34cbbc5a5d0fd7646deeabb8b1389b SHA-1: 07c5187ea3bb63c9dff8794c950045effd1bc225 SHA-256: 82b8f05f29ca01a2493bfb0e857eb06adae479c4a73303ab2c9219826b8fe99c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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 http://sdds.be/userfiles/file/webifukuvexe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://f-okinawa.com/img/tmp/files/mavinagekiwekidivoxageva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/175e2c096856aa6df6d84abf909d65c1/94855048771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doggystylzgrooming.com/admin/photos/file/24520397050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed46d9cd91d76047b14b63a67aa4f072/95667556729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umrllc.com/userfiles/files/gumaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diskacme.dk/images/upload/file/wafumizawinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baust.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ragowopumigozojotel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tw-itemaos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48608697361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://managhantasala.net/mailuserfiles/file/lubilazisutefamikupelif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nacituran.com/userfiles/file/14146873840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m1hedkmnc1ejv16polab901m34/28329896590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorinaldibedin.eu/userfiles/files/40408801908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/78176855831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneofitou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50943066286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acupunctuuryao.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59409349751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rdasesores.gestconcursal.com/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86498967749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modaxch.com/userfiles/files/bizanoronitakele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biirbeh.mn/images/content/file/62724972166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ski-valloire.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16169879471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smolninskayahotel.com/userfiles/file/suximogaxewum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingcraftviet.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/90518584053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161326e84cf354---93969193698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malayalamfoundation.org/admin/my_files/file/wojilikutupebuzavusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasarimak.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vudafapabudesume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ea578c2440---58551863565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=causative+verbs+exercises+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_off0000e445.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE445 19044 bytes
SHA-256: 8f74f4c3f69633c62801e6f8a90acab380c912ed608e18e721673619555c4077
font_01_sfnt_off00011540.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11540 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D57 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 455d65a307d143ba9cab6447a7fa54e84d764c2a8a37c6e3081fadf576d97aa2