Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82e4a1c058f270d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 06:36:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: bda96f16ed2055472c2aed01e5cd54f2 SHA-1: dcf31dfd1f3d0db4db4db28836ff91495f7d57cc SHA-256: 82e4a1c058f270d0f493d01f4efd4d07953d96aea96e5c895e7b8a5ff4b10f23
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly support a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=verb+go+in+present+perfect PDF link annotation
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h50eelr0b0s6hnt5u0vskbf1ri/95745416273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-harmonics.com/upload/files/49615965563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettosirocco.it/userfiles/files/fexusawejewisipigoleroku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c0cdcc3512---wefutubewivubuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608790ae12770---sisuxibete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/zulidef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b42d88a8c---vajiturejav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c2hgj4a2vcjqvng68ubc3me9l/fevuzeneta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevimticaret.net/userfiles/file/naludubibadowagizoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f18f200583d---83239756932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonroller.com/userfiles/files/zololawadim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9922bdca85---kujudaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5c746b2f5---81493428490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3af7708ba6387b931dbc8c34d82cf723/64850568719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lussoleathertiles.com/test4/EDITOR/example/v2/userfiles/file/70764525106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e6d4a71185d4e0dc2e5afeabe36ced1/fuxivogolukizalukut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/asvsu0mlsgirnud606o35pfudh/89024541171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6617540344---fazidoriruponadepex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluewhaleline.com/image/upload/File/gerujeteladevivamijuduxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4afcb10b1448937a39bb994dd6efcee/47137648291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d9a86509ba98b73aee1f71d0438ebe4/supigojiruzevufubadose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://locoffice.ru/userfiles/file/82139352443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icon-studios.com/userfiles/file/2767793640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e666d5ebdeb---dojulesifajulipuropolo.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_off0000dc67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC67 17980 bytes
SHA-256: 764cfb702706551343e4e24c93955018794e49ff98eff7bda5fd429aeb9aeb23
font_01_sfnt_off00010b9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B9D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000123b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123B4 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 0718d5c97ab3f3ddd7beefd7d8fb32b1e8a9f5080f3aa0824da3321b60967d94