Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83eff49b32e3bfba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-09-27 04:08:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: ec9378c32ba65cbcf6f7aef282a44beb SHA-1: b1fa4c154f8c34d73db45d7df730338db34ceb3b SHA-256: 83eff49b32e3bfbaf8e3092e989faa37e9aa9bebb75d2fb882b2cf91df895dd7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URI heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+led+indicator+app+for+android PDF link annotation
    • http://websteravelandscaping.com/editorData/file/nezorekawatanujule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134cedd31516---40042390851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasifikendustriyel.com/userfiles/file/45292841138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.com/data/cms/file/jezifag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartvoicecom.com/userfiles/giban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a16e1e38b8---fexegobelidajirivizapuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phannhan.vn/files/usersfiles/files/9663192049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siroyensao.com/upload/files/58236165506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuatudongbinhduong.net/uploads/files/21224156099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132dec918898---2593685225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://advocaatindex.nl/images/uploads/dilogakujasigotiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puisan.ru/uploads/file/kafazagetir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenlivinggarden.com/htdocs/UserFiles/file/90665146506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traktorpulling.de/ablage/userfiles/files/79052962803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161369a6e95773---80830740309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16150fc9f9afa3---pubisele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moiarchitekci.pl/pliki/file/84389722220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npi-management.org/ressource/site-image/files/buwijowutopidewalexopit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieta-plus.pl/userfiles/file/gitedabumogagebanaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.akilciilacdernegi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2742663161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimosusto.eu/userfiles/files/xumefadikobarajixoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aef30cea1d5332de737d1b649eed50a4/xifazutewebejipawetido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f596aa4740162c022ba375ea04cb8333/11350956713.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b72f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB72F 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 6a6c64d352b3edd4a47f13c25b81290434eb17d25d9a9a4a69e6ef630ec52e8b
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFB8 18836 bytes
SHA-256: 4ba5f30427a20fa3fdfaad4c8cdb1ddf05897f645083d4d1ba56341103167c9d
font_02_sfnt_off000100ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1