Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83d8604396ac0ed0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-07-01 22:49:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 77d7725b18d2dfe6f7d771bd51b785cb SHA-1: 8051bc773d53a790431401961ad788af021d4fc4 SHA-256: 83d8604396ac0ed0b999387837f5162751c6df1efb0e820d1f01a9c159d8b275
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or downloads. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic findings and numerous URLs confirm the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

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://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gifq9ibk8222k522ef1ejo1s3s/83667259355.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c797404db9a---9935888411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetfanini.eu/userfiles/files/7680586827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160743de62e7f7---lepagojabojafuwuligig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607295225c5b6---19573250975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3bb7b884ea71778134afdb3201f3861/45945787168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenfuturevietnam.com/Upload/files/67854688923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praconsulgroup.ru/pict/file/zarirowipef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argekaucuk.com/nbg/upload/files/15243687817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soundreaming.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77266f9524c67e799e1a9ae0b53937df/ketijogefab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dohertylaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bilun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debcopharma.com/userfiles/file/10937994172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799305aec8a---97415230714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160986ccabbf99---lelafulizejoretudojuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2912f9a91c58746682357c1a9f80d304/sebuzumunud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ashleymongolia.mn/uploads/files/41638746506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0sdoteb627ri0jlv9apthmk35b/nakurunuvareludu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d220e25c59---61725762274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/pemase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogies.com/includes/template/uploads/file/87702322990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a33c54906a0---1601510409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourlightingbrand.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c8cd8dc9134d3bef984a6bd57a63bef/27187358360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q03ev91fvqujknoo4qivg9p3k2/rubixevuvadixomejewipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=the+sum+of+three+numbers+in+an+ap+is+12PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e3eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3EB 18520 bytes
SHA-256: 7a6e26a9a63d7597e18b7fde10e0f99368f0f7fcd532a8b8cc77e7286efe596d
font_01_sfnt_off0001155e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1155E 10952 bytes
SHA-256: b89c09ffd8bda7ade92c27ad1e3702f1222c615a3b21f6ce0e573da5f0b10627
font_02_sfnt_off00012e77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E77 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00014688.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14688 16156 bytes
SHA-256: 15bdb3869d8d4458aad361551f68459b5691bbaf699be9bec01cb82de0a2cecd