Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83e6f1a35a9e4d26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-07-05 00:15:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 1245b48415785ca6b21e105c0cbf24b1 SHA-1: 157c750101c3021866d382419cee8a710c352b8d SHA-256: 83e6f1a35a9e4d2626694793c06e2437fcd6526467648ce5f531008aea83198c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.001 Process Injection

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories 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 malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient to infer a malicious link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 http://nomorecpapmachine.com/userfiles/files/xopivorago.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088401556118---tupakosimutedewesilitelok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/stvlm3fcb41t7acj5brsm5hhgk/zomarawaluki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1vd4ntdd4ovek616rj8bqf2nuh/28720408529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1c91df772---10541977401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbe8a69b1d4---53188736020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/67535863510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.se/upload/tumufadarud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e64e54960b37e6679e38f112e8473f14/3346050899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7626b31a264bb84899f915898cc7449/dimefuwuxiromudawivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunnyvale.com/wysiwygfiles/file/vobena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a8633be24---betopawewovufegatudimalax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077433a8a7f2---vibidekamijute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiaciran.org/cache/fck_files/file/90208854719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/48367242801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/774936ee0c713473dcd84934813be04b/50830796642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigsvatcharasith.com/userfiles/file/61721182407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transinfosoft.com/userfiles/file/lazagomabuvaxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mojer.bg/files/numolamifez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.se/upload/lebim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=wash+delicates+in+hot+or+coldPDF 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_off0000e55f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE55F 17460 bytes
SHA-256: 5491db3cfe144c1be213ec487c22e83412d15cb0d0f15861ae1d9118fba72a41
font_01_sfnt_off000112d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112D9 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 6d9ac8a908a070c58dc77c499470664caf79e0149e317bf84286b72676162d1c
font_02_sfnt_off00012a8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A8B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1