Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82ba20a19e0c0cea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 15:49:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8fb377879b52e3b011e3c160ae45eebf SHA-1: 176b221cb9e8186dc3fac94761aa1ee6f5a60a5d SHA-256: 82ba20a19e0c0cea6f9baa7365952c8bfc462b42cef0ac23947e6554add09c97
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations and disposable hosting, likely intended to phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the attack by hosting numerous links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=myasthenia+gravis+adalah+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.rapn.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jabumidekegubilopizetaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c602743cec4---xevojowasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161002c9363e67---zexowesarofilumukezipebir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbe300b303c---67043161247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757ce74db13---bomafogelowosovotevas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/484317434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3b2bf8cbc2---2694610142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd9abb360bb---36544156886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogotowienaukowe.com/Upload/file/88678795041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9600abf9471058e7d1b4ce1c935e79cf/disoremejub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161184c2b2bef0---20291660688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9aj21apgklhj5ikafmloka6d6c/busukasuwadeganu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamessham.com/admin/usercontent/file/wozamoxizisijipixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teckim.it/themes/userfiles//files/kopulosunonewiraxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608651ca5f5b7---98018654191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe177764ea---26992074226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvsc.co/userfiles/file/dizij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a84471082a79f0871a7f7995bd08409/5580847611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showplus.ae/userfiles/files/60469352651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planbmedia.hu/files/ketonuboxedikakafewelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d0f336236---45985050735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://defhjdrjioo.friend-match.com/upload/files/kopasatujivero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c527f2d4bdbb8f4c15fd3e4c857814b/sanisekufotapogika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a8290938bbb4b0003e2c1a5a3527392/wolisej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d363288f14a---32400406252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000da75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA75 17268 bytes
SHA-256: c2f5c31ad7f2e70a10966f02f14e3a1321a73cdc4adca8941e98431177cc76b6
font_01_sfnt_off00010777.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10777 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F8E 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 326bcde8d660098e9279f433b9ab208ded9ff84a981227a3d13b4f7761231c37