Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 882a3a75ecd4519a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 14:53:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d0fc3932ffdd9444fa8a37ef1fc41f7b SHA-1: 4a25e6e2c15d84fdd4d3f146f91a53e2843608b3 SHA-256: 882a3a75ecd4519aad17be8e7f6eb35284d7b23103d665948a39a4292d442da1
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple links pointing to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malware. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://csc0851.com/userfiles/file/20210906022242_d8glgu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kite-surf.sk/files/50494589843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karolinanowak.com/userfiles/file/nagulerifepusibavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biblioteka-belzec.pl/upload/files/81683299971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613de9500a7c2---53412356977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thrifty-uy.com/files/others/32478134323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosadistanciayonline.com/medios/files/66177440739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvet-trefontane.eu/userfiles/files/31075772060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161330335e3e1c---xedumurewakusezuwadus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kemxoi.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/9505111874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moto-bike.pl/userfiles/file/mupiloweramowagavepizuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.161.111/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xokivusibikopesipegule.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6qqnmsbo1io55n8ci6r5k3g8l/12726049603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensegun2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xujafusovuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a80dd8ba49e3cd4d0b65a3c7579f6d4d/15619972204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekstilkentrehber.com/upload/ckfinder/files/56619809011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ned.ru/uploads/files/56389107779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boldogelet.hu/media/gulexugutukodalutisera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a864230380---95540058323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istvietnam.com/rich_editor/file/65804106648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empresa-venta.hr/files/4701864038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubsahdianagalati.ro/upload/editor/file/zidamag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2e15c2324d9a5413d239ff48c6aacb1/33612942320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenboo.vn/uploads/files/52755171506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranahytta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60361552884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=emulator+for+pokemon+blackPDF 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_off0000d311.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD311 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 2f0b35d5887f8ba7aeaab11ad3a56e1fed13abc7bb4e0d77ba9bf25177089665
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB5E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010370.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10370 18168 bytes
SHA-256: 4c4eec76d7b6f307e283ba0aecb36424c057667ee6af72d5d926c0cbc5693114