Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82f5215f1275dcf7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 18:25:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8889a37e4e20b2e3f2472b9e5b269028 SHA-1: cd3b70605f2fe0137de57f71e14d76ca5b92cd1a SHA-256: 82f5215f1275dcf7f6e2a1e35ccaa1df8ec77424a2f2e8b6cc5f7eafc0403951
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URIs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates the document's primary purpose is to act as a link farm, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+cook+pheasant PDF link annotation
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/lumuvodizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baraanduliaptti.org/userfiles/file/28517413075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eb18dba9b8---jaregazil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e060d50d71b7a1dd5a1d88fb443a7a5c/38121608510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/23456946397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildungrice.com/fileupload/fckeditor/file/56589290930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/58142340650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vh55qs0hljr9g2bbtoe53u2a45/75124365325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubest.ru/images/file/23108593206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanarina.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67677784740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1utilaje.ro/mm/file/zegewebazeradukurubifelij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newgrids.com/userfiles/file/xomuboxekiwunefudedumive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af8bd240075---renasufivol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7110784c8e29cb16ff85ed16420f9869/faxoxuzenivajibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6558639a7b5167c8450953a2dbaa8919/80691265523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/67888223934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084634b83980---xuvunixizofiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c48057990---tedidipixudaj.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://aristosaigonhotel.vn/uploads/files/lixepaduliviripakadaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f98rbkogo5bh6kok4u1aod3lp9/83346341529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5da587122c---60876036637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090465c2ef6f---fekawazumunajawiva.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_off0000da2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA2D 10404 bytes
SHA-256: 8b42ad2581455567f89d38592453107eea92b237fbec937512fd62304c0df55f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000109d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109D4 17268 bytes
SHA-256: 4a3485bd42f23f2e20cc6bb997c6296b691bbb85bac9584be17e888ebd6ca51a