Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82e6eb3855822b65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-09 13:53:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 52a7d0b43c1e9c2a5d4a836ee2909b68 SHA-1: fe78e83afc8c36110b26f9fd42df8743fcf9ea0e SHA-256: 82e6eb3855822b65eba9550454b64ded95adf4a733e8b15a2301a1a4a6a9702d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several heuristics indicating a link farm structure and the use of compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://vialivonica.eu/userfiles/files/bavokufusowix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://allivecoat.com/userData/board/file/tigenapugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stephan-kratt.de/data/reiterhof/userfiles/file/72554795217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kreativitaet-stadlhofer.at/global/images/userfiles/file/xenedotumupufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbautotech.com/board/datafiles/imagefile/20586080952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inannamsao.com/uploads/files/fabodupabawusiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomelieagency.com/userfiles/files/vafajekiredawetoxugewozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilartangguh.com/file/89569419371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irisapp.cn/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210903/file/16306104301671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atel-j.nl/uploads/files/94418948775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babetravelling.com/ckfinder/userfiles2/files/99669550480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guptajimarriagebureau.com/userfiles/file/39806673800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c299407751ad77479d561dcadd6286d/4467809253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winterwonderlandzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/7542145498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasintorn.com/images/upload/files/vasenigoraxuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddu-hk.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15722224574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agriplan-rs.com/dados/ckfinder/files/89356058533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewdel.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jipulemenes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613963c0b2f51---javasaguberuloxipif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161355744c95b9---39948230178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://batterseataxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/ruluruzarozosepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giorgimpianti.com/userfiles/file/dajaxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/84716672527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dierenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/bozexodosinosarote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kutscher-customs.de/gfx/userfiles/files/muberodigaguba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=toefl+listening+audio+and+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000dd05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f51c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF51C 10720 bytes
SHA-256: ff2f4dc0b579e30985f15481b490f7f76451338de6513b5dcaf16f517aae12e9
font_02_sfnt_off00010db5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DB5 18564 bytes
SHA-256: c530637cc85b264b09f7360e8393eae6b02d7a2d3289358121acdacc03476c60