Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 982e4df4512c9043…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-09-25 21:11:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7e1ffc26962b76ef3b14d4083c486497 SHA-1: ef3a2bed8d9b8b07414e4aa2b7662e20814e3e08 SHA-256: 982e4df4512c904338796fa6f27bafedbc73d30e23c38496bc0ee24d7a305028
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm and potentially malicious content, with a high ML score and ClamAV detection. The embedded URLs point to various domains, many of which are likely compromised or disposable, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the ML detection indicate a high likelihood of malicious intent, possibly for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://rudolphalexander.com/uploads/files/61015355296.pdf
    • https://glearningsolutions.com/userfiles/files/33913614355.pdf
    • http://kozelskadm.ru/files/uploads/files/zefakasixilupa.pdf
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96ac23f9af05824bec2178094911d9d2/gudegotoxalib.pdf
    • http://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/30908217157.pdf
    • http://yoshitomo-kokubunji.com/jcfiles/file/40383875377.pdf
    • https://bevillelecomte.ovh/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ropetalej.pdf
    • http://beiwendq.com/userfiles/file/dovasekux.pdf
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b7d54f29b3---68564387111.pdf
    • https://skykharchono.mn/editor/files/3432262419.pdf
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138fecf90fbb---1553281924.pdf
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161318bb42ecee---zukekiweruvugizojasudol.pdf
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97d321d049760b0afd6dc8db8f4f4c39/95080739682.pdf
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135dfd58f380---7088053899.pdf
    • https://sharmtocairo.com/userfiles/files/23588186885.pdf
    • http://secretinvitation.net/images/files/jotekineterabapipaj.pdf
    • https://aneri12.cz/res/file/sezuvad.pdf
    • http://bangdinhphucat.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/dovivuzosekozuz.pdf
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/63597198561.pdf
    • http://castel.lu/userfiles/files/sepele.pdf
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/velisowutaxenapo.pdf
    • https://tekdalyapi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/45935464324.pdf
    • http://sinoscaform.com/upload/ckimg/files/202109221906101518.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=f%C3%B6ra+%C3%B6ver+sms+fr%C3%A5n+android+till+android
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eef6.bin
1a878f376f0a7acf14575bed711619102f086ac45da2097b0452db6f011aa4ec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEF6 17944 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011cc9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CC9 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000134e0.bin
a1b8adb649912506db1128c29eadd46854fbf711fbb76cd8f4d067493051a148
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134E0 11036 bytes