Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83efb08bca0563a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:55:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 6c4d6898797a3499df28d6e579cf5fd0 SHA-1: 81c98c39ebf2a361d3bdce8f66f119894a4e2703 SHA-256: 83efb08bca0563a148d12e0aa4fc403c58329e1da32a1fc5e4e7738b037d4180
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to exploit users through deceptive content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=generac+5500+parts+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://ei-hotel.com/free_images/files/52064860732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wolfgang-photography.com/userfiles/files/42941319808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd31d26aa74300a37c0a4258bf78294a/25217732765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metaglas.kr/userData/board/file/82872175482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungklimalar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/lekitigepekepomas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741e18ea1b9---zukidomudotukafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9fbc74a919---jizupilegusosuviluben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160910428c6b82---83490626767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e11a9754473---40712637761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b863d412e79---jirevibapitikisotalak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/vadok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iphastkala.com/userfiles/file/zofebomageluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8afb8532b5---pinazorupag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozari-ua.com/files/file/dalez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kcequipment.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8985ca48f48ef5b6205f0ed43241dbc9/34178647135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5c0cd2635ecc8d46611e393ab2f0c82/19215238798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701dec3b528---53822790181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podereilmontaleo.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/pageviporelitaxofufavamex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mpu-beratung-brendle.de/userfiles/file/48764022181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n2nlah.org/UserFiles/file/48883387929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indagosrl.it/userfiles/files/disevup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/26246964958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qni1kc24sqgo3rjdttpp21eqlr/82664212988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://encino.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/bidofekumibagexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02010bc6101f022c55a1bf2341b3078a/xulaboze.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
stream_006_off000141f2.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x141F2 18868 bytes
SHA-256: 7f49cc5153c56447dc1faae9805e7e05e374625d935a6c251060878d3be194bc
font_00_sfnt_off0000e20f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE20F 18280 bytes
SHA-256: 5ab755e23fd8aa98c62d9d344fd4a004229a95e2313e54994fc0a0075b7e8718
font_01_sfnt_off00011126.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11126 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001293d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1293D 10720 bytes
SHA-256: e4fe2168dca23b6010ab3614574c7ced2d512748c71e3d12582ef33193ac4a36