Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82d18838c0a1f218…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-07-17 22:03:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 3925c169736f397ab17eaefcc0fd712d SHA-1: b6c80ed707f5350e1827923ac592c9dbf597cdaa SHA-256: 82d18838c0a1f218c1c4a4b6bf34de3ef0f5ea64f9b31446384426a8c090679d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to other PDFs hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. The primary goal appears to be directing users to malicious content through a chain of compromised links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3fe36b9ed92e9526cf3af9d59c8d67e/wititekokolasosibafaz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://yssnewlessons.org/UserFilesTwo/file/xagozegakuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/kutuvefunewatajavako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/40040955383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf86a89017---rugevajifujawap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wagnerfamilyreunion.com/clients/866685/File/fobowarimaditi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hometeamcorp.com/images/usr/fobunoresetiroxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consurs.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mebenimepusatalitexarov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608feaf8ef7b5---javixuremozazidewuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608216c8452eb---zuzowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5d3cb2ed54---nutomeganunigawovanij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089bacccd329---fovuvewaxegijubawiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d15704a180---gabuzanizataru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b4b9e610b6---jowajawito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46dcc5da47bfbbbf167566c8824aa502/89034702327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160850e5f765e0---33413125815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/87084005062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amblamy.ee/upload/file/zumupilutufokafevuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429224721697653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c6abda50b49dd72807327b74cee9aad/75603464470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpotplace.com/uploads/files/bakudamofusumepojad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77ed52d48f92e08556022b9439283fe5/rifupenegir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/764f06f68f57ebe4192696508f5a4535/41948624055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ecd54ad246b---zirabunutefoxowepetitef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=location+to+location+mapPDF 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_off0000e482.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE482 16988 bytes
SHA-256: 80aaafec5f91a41d05c1b48287692742a5061fb04d78ed90a1b471c97d50e9ae
font_01_sfnt_off00011016.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11016 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001282d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1282D 10092 bytes
SHA-256: b836fe7dfa1e88a60276995d5c6652a92ed41ffaff3080ee42d6b4aa0eda6dbd