Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a82beae2efd743cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 03:04:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 14a8b73eacdc48aedd1f6eb579c764be SHA-1: c9ab85cd733434864637d364508c280add826746 SHA-256: a82beae2efd743cc0627778989ad20ead993d3a7ca4efa0ff86cf962a2ee0b8d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://kssi.ir/public/userfiles/file/31680177241.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://2446665a.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43675151074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cavusofis.com/images_upload/files/xinigadok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uforoi.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/54690681890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210904110551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137c0ed63f3d---xazor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sial.pl/galeria/file/gugorik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimaycafe.vn/uploads/file/zidibonovozopadexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoscm.zohukum.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mosekizivabirezegesixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americasbestmanassas.com/uploads/files/10476437944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/lixudofuzasalak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alwaysthesame.pt/site/upload/file/24916705526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e87c162a3e3192b6826e6da68958ef9/57410765166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shriramsteels.in/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77899049849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isisthailand.org/file_media/file_image/file/nafogirup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanticcompact.org/userfiles/files/sagesumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://registermycompany.in/admin/userfiles/file/novedaxiwivel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piazzademarini3ge.com/userfiles/files/53239712011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/1411033381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boras-sjuharad.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/92839983011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gonouvellezelande.com/files/17997494609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161426f9bb3265---mugaxukazarevid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celyroknaterase.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/65033349297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maisonforville.be/documents/file/66771622086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=can+someone+see+if+you+view+their+instagram+profilePDF 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_off0000d7c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7C8 17584 bytes
SHA-256: 22e61af7aad82f16cbb65f268ea8b0f8db09cf52dc0f8263181d9f1aa88ec89c
font_01_sfnt_off000104f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D0A 11200 bytes
SHA-256: 5919518433e50fa675b917a3938214c9119c77e18fa7e53c07abbbeffc26b8d3