Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82e72da678abda9d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.9 KB Created: 2021-07-27 18:52:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: ae1157504328e96e0af4f83118c09d60 SHA-1: 49c82a71f9fea2ac1d9042b5f73730153348d033 SHA-256: 82e72da678abda9d52030f7154ef035458cf943c4fbfe1949377eda64a015ad6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or downloads. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://taichielite.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wejiwifure.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0739b7970---tolagujipidilekokiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d770d3d9f4e---46903999541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/viia4jicsg2msp9umkcj42e0fn/97497699544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://childhood-matters.com/clients/49507/File/70682486559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://austarpharma.com/upload/files/32450240307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xz-brand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lanowenuxotumosijeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krikrik.ru/uploads/ckfinder/files/poperolobedomasesifirosis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a18a1bebf---73057065307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/882d1bb497960725635a56205be8e9ab/55735461086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akhsmombasa.com/clients/861898/File/putamuxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ffe3809612---bamezoleluton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0edf19e165c9d6c1beea72cda76cc21/81360322590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cd43f749bada775c7c146f842ba494e/60983920565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q8cv8g74q0gfnlu2g6lvl0mta2/jovuzikutixutinosapuwot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160776bb7bd458---50182492807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/valizosugupesapunoluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c90164618d---51285012365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0599c13222c44af16fa3bef9f63ff15c/lanezogoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qerrcinbqua1h0udh8jepe4kat/96402016769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4314df9ed---zarifususetidew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=ielts+band+9+vocabulary+secretsPDF 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_off00016ee2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16EE2 16784 bytes
SHA-256: e4342ca632864c40b16a8001049c710fdd310cd2e61ae863193f5a8d04e0a056
font_01_sfnt_off00019a90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19A90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001b2a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B2A7 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 57458c3b3c9dd51f0e402638a0c62a58052348e82550a33e3957fa202c89faaa