Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a83eaa81b164f3b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 14:23:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 6eed1d9ae2ef64919bcc8284f5dc7581 SHA-1: 82f46cc624ccdad3300a034ac69455bb7e4422da SHA-256: a83eaa81b164f3b3e47cd9a8f488cf0c8b6cc8f1b9ffdf1fb0f1a2a6278df969
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely intended to lead users to phishing pages or download further malware. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an effort to distribute malicious content broadly.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=manual+vs+automated+software+testing PDF link annotation
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdkapp1gm5qjq44kasjlu4irr7/bikidin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c030d388662---23670389290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160884b4f07394---67756260267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ph2jbrf43aprdpiak59fg3c277/vedamewelawiwupugatokud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubenoferro.com/userfiles/file/94372625355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcc4c429d42---42865164146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aibasylhet.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wezuvemewopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.smartlandgroup.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/nutafofasomito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziconiavip.com/uploadfck/file/navaxaxomijeren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089bb7204e28---wegonirabav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7832860082559eb741dced5db1c95ff/fevawiribujalofixur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4qfbosufsvdct2hcces7sgmgm4/30999966474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/429b6e052b1bade32f2657e51edc5403/18544899072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3107b081c1d420499f05caa2e55a9d43/giwubedogagox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/resdpontbind1sf1g2geoesuq7/wabebunikosorun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3d67b6393---xofexujuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamaxmotor.cz/data/dokumenty/27356032646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shyjjc.com/v15/Upload/file/2021823213702333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decaldankinh.net/upload/files/88196607482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/77507327640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c947df9d9---mudarivoduluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckdidea.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/koroxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084914aa4548---pozuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-ostrava.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ramedameb.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_off0000da77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA77 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 0e7a8805f27c83c3eaac6ccc5b7b32a3e1e0e14c5252f197f74ae2b0099805ba
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3A8 17196 bytes
SHA-256: 8dab543c130247cfe985ba556bf58fac91a4cecec0998219a3e38771dc5bd24d
font_02_sfnt_off0001202d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1202D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1