Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82f552e20097be19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-25 21:56:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 7c687de66e47e905f836304cb1040d54 SHA-1: 65fb8c9ba42020fe7b211be91e9f0c8d4d5a4c6a SHA-256: 82f552e20097be191b1aaa2ed84fedf0fff31bd68d885568bf69186ca1b435a3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/wilavakozava.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gujaratisamajparis.org/upload/files/27894063492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad737f63bdf---lulumagijifixovozaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49911ea6dc4042edf11e0501483934fa/15769362172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beauti-full.ru/uploads/files/nezorufapudimovarupibit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i4611qughkev24c3enkqv63gu6/manupuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/osrotj89jo61aff5btv64f9upn/sajuliraronaxanewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://old.bgk-meshkova.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fomakudosagarozosuxoxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itkaufmann.com/images/fckimages/file/66589942981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cjopqfei21t2i4452rcn49r462/82276753435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iehyun.com/editorupload/file/26294857110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/82806171848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f12105b170---7663699367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomleasing.ru/media/File/lovovewexisasajufozubafak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3fa1182126---61191776832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a14cce2d9---vutevapuguwin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ace909127---78231519961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennycojewelry.com/userfiles/files/202106/1623450334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uro-medical.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/gukasapufexodebumisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hijaulumut.com/contents//files/14757601147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ade427650378de106ec5c609eeafede8/27450144929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patriabrno.cz/userfiles/files/55501797609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flynewsletter.com/uploads/file/26136319474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2di0d3fgpg3470v4q99bd7rpup/sotofiliradetorifap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulceoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xomupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=microsoft+security+essentials+software+free+download+for+windows+7+64+bitPDF 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_off0000e970.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE970 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010182.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10182 16808 bytes
SHA-256: 51a0407759d17cba832804556bfa15627a7ef76f551005dd96ca44c5e59d788e
font_02_sfnt_off00012d4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D4F 11200 bytes
SHA-256: d1acad4b9b1fdb9ecaddd7cdd40531f0ddfb741e5518a6f9743852a6f63c78a3