Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82eb7439306d5115…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 00:17:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 99157a628e52ecbc0e7011dab05c961f SHA-1: d85646da6b8009e904c9ab9b7a6f92a5a4c2e4aa SHA-256: 82eb7439306d511556f08fca7767335336910eba5883738883d03df09f39164d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, so the primary attack vector appears to be the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gftoqrgudhdu879frgumi664s4/24439280365.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yanartextil.com/firma/files/69225933325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d5950e15888b90961052303832f6caf/dugijilesinat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hdfracok43j8joeiv0mf3421rm/matomaferijobuwamivuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eed18d4a7a3d9a210d334031a9c8ae1f/jibuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dashoernerboot.de/userfiles/17306057073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099177b9089f---1763678564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609feeff23a2f---tugeretilufakulazadeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accidentmatters.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zijuzodebezirages.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icmasistemas.com/userfiles/files/mulosov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiastudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20267435143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wearefamily1234.com/clients/3/31/31b46d3307e4516335aa88350909469c/File/voborose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2fc33b28ec---63126951123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakesideterracecondo.com/clients/41361/File/64281673882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/dupijemuxeniboxufumab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tieulongcopro.com/luutru/files/fodulisukokelalevozubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongros.com/userData/board/file/8414011286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://memoservicesrl.it/file/filerivixapajironafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097eb328f9e4---79124641171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnkingdee.cn/Files/file/20217301357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transfertrolley.cn/d/files/72108223598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=tango+jalousie+violin+piano+pdfPDF 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_off0000e9fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9FB 20732 bytes
SHA-256: 1669ebe1e1ec7012672f1404de1cc0ec004161ce92af694e173a8354332f9d20
font_01_sfnt_off000120a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120A0 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 7e88926e2760fcb9e8e0b4f2f7aa070039ba070d1b7a33b852c1cba383fab232
font_02_sfnt_off00013930.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13930 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1