Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82ff8a5c42348d38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-28 10:52:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 2afd06244d4bf2d87845c6f35994934b SHA-1: cdff59c3041ebd201c5775812316d5db619cd00f SHA-256: 82ff8a5c42348d38e5e4a75f2e11b00fd82f820f0eeb4d7b191d9fdec382f38d
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 websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URI heuristics and compromised CMS upload links reinforces the nature of this document as a malicious redirection tool.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tekken+6+download+in+android PDF link annotation
    • http://ttmm.co.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jijesiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iproperty.ae/userfiles/file/14092892338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lidiyageorgieva.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wifefisuxidijebujozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d0505890a345d5c276260b8b463513e/44662002596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leresto-niort.fr/images/userfiles/files/padasafekosadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halkum.rs/files/siminexutev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatoodesign.com/userfiles/files/pawatexonifasagibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafitym.kz/files/file/gazalovawefujuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolauramoschini.it/userfiles/files/putoxojato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ros-audit.com/i/up/file/niluvebedinipoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irvinenott.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49094719135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osakaav.com/userfiles/files/76419142649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bargiel.com.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuzilojededokedetagedafup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioaba.net/userfiles/files/jetovapowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosite.ru/images/news/file/95312127997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeon-dev.com/uploads/files/202109240749245878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2bb8cae89ac9aba1cdb10695a725d7f/21673306995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsospice.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/28845362527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/202192125704385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omeofest.eu/userfiles/files/46021569085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614aed3c8f044---topopevesevebune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noriupapildu.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22883253944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonio-pelella.eu/userfiles/files/96849110040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forti.in/userfiles/file/99732636726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biznesfishki.ru/files/userfiles/files/buzotugemof.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_off0000b4fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4FD 17380 bytes
SHA-256: 708edf32a36dcb83724a1699772800dcc88f4454b85c96da84f95af99dbbecaf
font_01_sfnt_off0000e158.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE158 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f96f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF96F 10284 bytes
SHA-256: c5ce1f2ac68d96c172160c57fd2c9a2f803309c5449d4ab54759c49681215724