Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 882e2f98b77e5b53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-07-03 01:54:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b8c8852179f9fd1aa98d4d773e964068 SHA-1: 1cb57b82f890454d35b8de76bc1f95d3d5ce1f17 SHA-256: 882e2f98b77e5b53d1623ec158846a2ba8d20cffd6fd243f03d0797b0ebdfa72
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, further supporting the malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609870b9e0111---jazixoxidilagepowuwinizu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tokstar.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/55600093452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/252c065b5c27bf203f318b0280762861/gilusagozusosupoloxopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/musivobafatulobirovawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160900de9d70c7---14260054290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/fuxiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072af38ecf7b---5694074342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08d75848e2b5791d94f1cb796552c07b/pizuletezoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fdc93257ff---26924031627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svsteinfurth.de/radsportfiles/file/nipawanarebozemonibosob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isvpro.com/custom/files/somezakiwikakubodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibmetiz.ru/upload_picture/keniwux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944348a805a---22135519883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fb70f3645be6c420dfbc6fe28039f07/472079740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1a9d206c4---jujavanevuvubazosisonel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5a5940b778---34250236408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099bee54b5b5---vapudekajoxafuvukap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609887c84d28d---81707030025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d3f349949---94116925110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gramercygrand.ru/files/file/kinuxinaruwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8128968fa8---diwadonetabowesirusizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnkingdee.cn/Files/file/202152422349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8d7995039e---89405848072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d9b6b0a34b---samonopilisiregitir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenkin-t.com/upload_img/ck/files/gaxasawububebadegubuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=places+to+eat+in+bardstown+kyPDF 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_off0000d271.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD271 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 5c3a40544cf6758f28c5b0c2e8fc23025e7a140a305b7fc28158209993c1e5de
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB89 16828 bytes
SHA-256: 0d6a704e18783386e5b61d6de7f788a8650df7a6a673ae7714a032fc939ddcfc
font_02_sfnt_off0001177e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1177E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1