Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c82d9d491b21bdc9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-07-30 13:45:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: abca15d298cff62c609a4e9d563bcc9f SHA-1: eb87ce3ca897b0beb916cd53ea57e0f5f085b5fd SHA-256: c82d9d491b21bdc9b6cc2bfcd721ed42521f70cb458d70743872940e5d383c2e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure suggests it's designed to lure users to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/jasofo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/13313852287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiskreunion.com/clients/b/b4/b417c2091670ce0b0d78f4b231aea02c/File/sedutakanoxekitezojejitag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608920dbb322f---limowadimusep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e8cf733f8a---68280198721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6df246555---59263011038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086306d2b5b1---batep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d8c91cf898---lapaxidozamodolafulan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nh89ohg7657r93s2abuj7dnhs1/34522066224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodymart.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/taromizatewar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19f876a6c34244bcc257639ab1366381/45971540031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.at/upload/50498169390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motacademy.it/file/12470932525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computerdoki.hu/user/file/damugipinibaferevewugegup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lkcsihlv0ac5cvk6vcktf2gpv8/872367344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t2nmdl5jf9a96vm8uc08pp2job/parusebopejarejemeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-0898.com/userfiles/file/20210714025849_x0r1vh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/xirimewabazikev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fru914qmb1gg6oob1gdllqaq4/94842131868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b9d3ddb5a---nukuzel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608df7617dc73---55866014761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tukqs6oua9jho2f6duj2kuc7gn/50746122553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bee9fde211691fa94cc8f9d8026da7e7/4890891119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/652diohac0cbiog29f8h4llta1/7614018915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=best+movie+trailer+app+for+apple+tvPDF 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_off00010247.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10247 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 7458da05725baf1ccb18850875aa5f446143dbc4653f26559756ae34d46867ee
font_01_sfnt_off00011a5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A5E 17368 bytes
SHA-256: 174c47c9c1303c063a90351944da0d705ce70ea0db1a24d29bf65d8f2a568114
font_02_sfnt_off000147b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1