Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83ba5fd14c82c7b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-07-19 18:12:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 9dda9a1a069c9ea99cceaf86880e5662 SHA-1: a2df5a085a20af9e72150f96937f0d76d00f74ae SHA-256: 83ba5fd14c82c7b6366a6e8a64eb15a4e1cf6617712c389e587b4260a155ffa8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm hosted on compromised CMS upload storage, specifically WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, with ClamAV classifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest a phishing or redirection attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092872ee846c---gupozigosanaroz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akazwaeiw.xn--p1ai/editorfiles/file/40183267779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d67158d88a0---munarelebune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd3484556e---kesopubamezekepajimeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vansuloi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/lobapugaxuworolepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rekalibracija.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/159875de9ced18d2ad79cbab8d2f8008/61183792012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eclickapps.in/userfiles/files/52321572070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070be03990b2---belujizejetesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc16daab0b1---mitonar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j0tijsimkon4l3sit6ebnko514/kusafiwuselirug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99ebb2e9dcb3c010c79bdde91965b250/57918729709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocchame.vn/app/webroot/img/uploads/files/miguruvilotixeganedibubal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc2c99affef---xuruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrosteadycam.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c022ed9b3463174640a4e1061a2cb6c6/24159069576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/demudetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenshinorchids.com/FCKeditor_upload/file/5203709094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80de0e2160a0ecb785afa25ec32491c1/siradaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparkpro.lv/content/file/duremulexisumuvujunuxibuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2bdf481e5f---79177738875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lpc2529.com/piceditor/file/15572819838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freetourscadiz.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/90103165152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-tl.ru/upload/file/84239130735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/97795822136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fvdaij9soc3tuuomk1dg0he8e6/81562666979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/9098974351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=current+affairs+yearly+2021+arihant+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_off0000e45d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE45D 17096 bytes
SHA-256: 9851464f8d3cd0ccb7e38f08f083a96c455e125676955be1ac80f86327d91394
font_01_sfnt_off00011097.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11097 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000128ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128AE 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 47afdc77b3ef758a2b5ff865f54c4b198db7fbeddea2081bec82b94ef87ef23c