Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82d0cfe58965f4a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 10:54:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 91ec537e040ceeb3555904bf1d8690a4 SHA-1: a3882e8a258549804e1ff01a4095c1c9d3ae6d68 SHA-256: 82d0cfe58965f4a2d2a9c19897d40dc053dc5c066270934b3c265e63a07a440e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and are structured as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The primary function appears to be redirecting users to potentially harmful external content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/puh4qm7ui9asvs88ss01qa89kk/57547747354.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://flexicourse.cz/res/file/degutujawuromimovitaxito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motolargo.pl/userfiles/file/nosowobesadukibuxukigep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoalavender.net/upload/files/togapezipamanexus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/1881812703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tcc31l6461f9qv3stbgb13a2h5/xefizewuzug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0d21bc27ac271d7db07935c1b613bed/6000721656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pb8dppo5gmepgk4ipij40cdstn/jogubawakibidewaregovewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/555742fd02cea3ea834b68728fdb5614/kipefejilup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askort.pl/Upload/file/vuwarimuvevopuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastwoodfamily.net/userimages/tizulewesavajosebivuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32rd8li6c2cqnpko8f31h45jo4/33528379577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askort.pl/Upload/file/14645240934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53deca328ad8c38b58fe905f3848a981/51001424889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heatexchangersolution.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-28/20210828152511229108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c07ef4d3759---50261370228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaushalango.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/vonogarifomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kientrucqhouse.com/uploads/image/files/11210541199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhs1980alumni.com/clients/878257/File/kufetutepapedituzonuvuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iqmuseum.mn/uploads/files/xebitunoneketi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soepcentrale-dekeyser.be/userfiles/file/50398348095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cezanart.com/userfiles/file/fusodojerururow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa2b472f7c---sutuvosibopomubepilisuxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=in+the+baselinePDF 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_off0000e9d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9D5 10076 bytes
SHA-256: 788eda60f6c6cef76e0e1e8d3bc45043bde8bc9435659a78d1ddd181022c7c18
font_01_sfnt_off00010024.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10024 16220 bytes
SHA-256: 0b771804cc3cd3dbdf148c4374d61d6ac9b99e3ed8d9eef1125eb47415687a77
font_02_sfnt_off000129d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1