Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1f82176d6a23623…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 02:51:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 74ee97ea0e80439f62e3e4feea263e3f SHA-1: 78609732e341c7306791f01304f68aea332787ff SHA-256: a1f82176d6a23623cc1a7936c44a94d3744974ae1e334a5858739db183887d7f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to compromised websites, indicating it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple links to compromised CMS uploads reinforces the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161376639699eb---rofopuwesitise.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e02427520e1576ef6357aab5524f8ad/daxevimenujirafate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uslugiinzynierskie.eu/eurostyl/photos/file/wasugopasumig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delfosventures.net/userfiles/files/75740470684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantemails.com/userfiles/file/163129191611627260152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juentai.com/userfiles/files/55613426044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svingenieria.cl/userfiles/file/82766222489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rivebistro.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/loxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zezoalza.com/ckupload/files/jumisolanugilif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piauiaqui.com/ckfinder/files/73057287449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeusjtu.pretty-match.com/upload/files/6820979601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoforace.eu/userfiles/files/67636792644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redactron.com/userfiles/file/panoxozogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laibros.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/27972512682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zerling.eu/nico/images/files/papuvaguxajusefiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1613c29800598d---pogaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133439270fc2---18480882412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133d021eac18---83597090414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbeloosschinkels.be/userfiles/file/49038382389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photonics-science.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37738285421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prodomasa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78827269763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135823b7904d---fejefuwadomikejarulefam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142dea781afc---20520112543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a5f0b6eadf---polofimudujixidixuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ez-surveying.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/89002306663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=grandfather%27s+journey+pdfPDF 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_off0000c750.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC750 16816 bytes
SHA-256: 75f5be81256efcc4547400ed6ca48d04a6efedf3790d525e60b96cf3a9e8bc69
font_01_sfnt_off0000f31f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF31F 10876 bytes
SHA-256: d1ee625d310c52938b9ed50368f0ef65b1f90127bc37f566c8b60a8b7eea1c38
font_02_sfnt_off00010c4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1