Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82cffcfe8f0f3777…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-07-07 05:21:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c8a0c5735e5532e751c44f1665f4c75a SHA-1: ce91950f3095142f53b5998b2a492c53834c68c5 SHA-256: 82cffcfe8f0f3777eee92ad543b2aedd50713bc18c623f81e3758b6baafa38ac
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of 'cmdpd0pmjapaue92/5463076266.pdf' in the document text, alongside other suspicious URL patterns, further supports a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fried+green+tomatoes PDF link annotation
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba15cf1cde0---69358423407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boilerservis.ru/uploads/files/lidanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfavit.tv/userfiles/file/67952856646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29f3b6ccfd80d17df565ba64f429fdea/fobetudowevitosevoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b542ed5b163---tukelarejozegefizatax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuestag.ch/userfiles/files/zezulurabodanatakefepofox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c98b0b27ad2---pigalokex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf085864fdd---ratapujolij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b1ea0d7bc---83400252040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://granite1962.com/clients/869125/File/vovivor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160852eb3d3f71---xinutif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6d7e31776---84544889341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a72e1ab695d---rasetasuradujuxipifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ec78912b4---zogotegule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b125379c42---sevinujujusefutolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/durfp1trjmt1i4ud043905hid1/wirubexatupogowivij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78a2bc9b8e2edf32b1910805e59d0664/lemutiluvomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0v5d58ragucmdpd0pmjapaue92/5463076266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maszyny.pl/userfiles/file/rasabepidewafiwavatoreme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uforoi.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/46885666680.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c559deb9a41---40089605459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/530d0243747d02fd11bf0cf8a5135fdf/31863326996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maszyny.pl/userfiles/In macro / runtime command snippet
    • 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_off000100a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100A1 10524 bytes
SHA-256: b2c16364cb3d3506fad365a4d5bbe01257e33afaac33e586a095cb18362987da
font_01_sfnt_off00011859.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11859 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001306b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1306B 17844 bytes
SHA-256: 031ec09b8370880c3d37efaaf781bdd291e39e1796c4520e1828e0dcbca00eb8