Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82d68b5d1be30e23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-07-20 01:12:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: de56025372a954fc6b8c7cef29e63417 SHA-1: ff6cf34269b76c36ae1021568a78b79de2315822 SHA-256: 82d68b5d1be30e23369f5ec97513662f56d58ea45fe52011625a10ff6dd28912
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm structure suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://alhs1973.com/clients/64426/File/folunokizofov.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb027e0701---81159666710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/74261385751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0fd2c9f58---luxarivigetevapoxirok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kbnefe8k87ij769kf02o1ollt3/warapivilopuxiguzek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/domaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yonseri.org/userfiles/files/61496049709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2442fde4c17c104e5b41abae8e6f4295/33627226778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alirezamirmohammadi.com/images/upload/files/39571360298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galluccifaibano.it/userfiles/file/zopokirupatelavirimoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be1ed83b670---mubuvugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b0611c63b0---15971068478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1vv18rkfaqrkbfb8q6ns0opt5/31547860809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a455277231c---wovunuzakodofew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/jigod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b906b70e9b9---fosotedipitagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fdb66b7341e59d3d9536334039541e5/tamaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mut-zur-veraenderung-hambuch.de/userfiles/file/dojuwifowobofewezesugofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maciejabramowicz.pl/upload/files/file/97389434581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kopari.hu/files/file/32136794782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42a9a44a55df8b261c80d744b46dc7c7/lubavapufewijifiwunet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/79809974320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=the+specific+heatPDF 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_off0000d5d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5D2 10172 bytes
SHA-256: be72cbca50b56f00eef48d4edea0840c267244cbf5642a089b80673eb69e06cf
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECC4 17140 bytes
SHA-256: d70cb2d7981b7ba0ee20a479b397f77c3fe3862585e6a612326d7bc9a0719c4b
font_02_sfnt_off000119a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1