Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83eaf144ab7aaa3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-07-13 15:58:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e814d87ced04567eea61a9a7dbc5da17 SHA-1: fb4f86f620a1a40008973ff2b713b6c3608a7d68 SHA-256: 83eaf144ab7aaa3f6c907e965d3d19a7d8c9136f96ad47bec0ef2e6cdd161911
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, likely to lure users into downloading further malicious content or submitting sensitive information. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=blonde+long+haired+dachshund PDF link annotation
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/65392525874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dsumm4tseu18blit1nhnhku0dv/95186349176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleshuzatabc.hu/files/file/16706760178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7e5a1d057---83849001515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67d77af204ba8c195794ea1965571d97/90190767989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/53331387079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altbuket.ru/files/11680241095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uceng.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/nukitujiwulixidajej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakesideterracecondo.com/clients/41361/File/folewalum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9eebde402c---madaxofobofevaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607017cdd7d2e---wapigepurajubakufopinafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://micronforgacsolo.hu/UserFiles/file/xomowuvobinevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubensova16.cz/files/file/40103850726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lroundup.com/clients/d/d7/d7466da0ad72d96b64793f89c518a0d9/File/91098257857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa26707e792---kupuxedumivenivazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a754b972e1f---samak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dcaa4212b8---wuvetop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089b6824d6dc---73555211259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timeyear-v.com/userfiles/file/dagorak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joelcsimonesq.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/85583509790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e2a5de308fb046395076ba63d538591/27217238672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pergamine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33217801637.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f70a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF70A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010f21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F21 10704 bytes
SHA-256: d5f974fde62249eb8e75b9b3c362f01d8da31ed6a2e3e44077417b1f2e25ca95
font_02_sfnt_off00012761.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12761 16344 bytes
SHA-256: 5cd8a120e106fc2d4fc1855603a636a3ce922decfb1b4d98f17a4a5450337c58
font_03_sfnt_off00013d56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D56 17316 bytes
SHA-256: 4f59a851e15dc20ff5dcdc3f7682374337db4a0f774ab98b54578ff2a8b69a16