Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a82344075b904406…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.8 KB Created: 2021-07-16 00:57:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c19303bf13a5f11d7db01d3c525ab875 SHA-1: 571549f6250d4e76c8fc1d7041214e131891181a SHA-256: a82344075b90440675222ac83f239484c70e08005c97ff4ad55bd6534bd0ab34
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links points to a technique for hosting malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=skyrim+dismay+shout+location PDF link annotation
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e6ed38537e---80794416450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajcsidavidfoto.com/_user/file/89833740089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5id7ma0rv6091dh05m88g5i5f/28768283131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buzmakov-ua.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/somuruxarasupupad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949968719cc---1926599526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geluidsadviesnederland.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87376438143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607921b7981aa---93533131855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160779fe2d39a0---56677119882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falls67.com/clients/50406/File/sisifuvaxelojojozodaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ggmtc.net/userfiles/files/36431283568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a16d6cb310d---8453581816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983e2da47d2---zaperexonokepefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc75.net/upfiles/file/1621792456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindahsatu.com/contents//files/susoxebevapejadusazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlaenvironmental.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/guziwotavifemeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrobud.net/uploaded/file/54984966728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sheenabusesandcoaches.com/userfiles/file/65911210156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873d20bb831---96878905604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06gn63gu8i6kqdegusvhqd6j7k/17418772703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870c67b5124---30329222016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160904e7f2c3c0---jexakerupimufavifovuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simmsfamilyreunion.com/clients/9/98/98d47f1658d09d39d77ba56043454c9c/File/5431182405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limeitec.com/upfiles/editor/files/20455053140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb202870b68e47bcbb37b91b91451c8b/90733213702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://termocity.by/pics/files/84816871315.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_off00010ba1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BA1 16800 bytes
SHA-256: 70ed721a902875bbc987a2f58081da7f99b0fb16090749bb75cebd5a7539e166
font_01_sfnt_off00013751.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13751 10884 bytes
SHA-256: cb81f0287546c706b2a4d2861ad2846b3eb37362c5c172cfda6bc74539ee2679
font_02_sfnt_off00015051.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15051 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1