Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d82a6fcfdbbb234c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-21 19:06:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f291dc94db5520cb9dd0ef935a9a1a6e SHA-1: 8d8eb2914ab13583638d02a21be28f1907c2f687 SHA-256: d82a6fcfdbbb234ce1382e2a0e3d56807c5c470ea5f2d5473ebf17b549ff8fff
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, indicating a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious websites. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly suggest malicious intent, specifically identified as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links and disposable hosting further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the document structure itself is designed to lead users to external, untrusted content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=my+love+pdf+a+word PDF link annotation
    • http://namjapizza.com/app/webroot/files/jiwobilibalexad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magnettoptan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/63820316911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fresh-j.info/images/uploadedimages/file/84832578879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.blog/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/14196716644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fasleh.net/Files/files/25121486461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/nijofisima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://history.tlshaa.org.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kofatoxeliwugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christ-china.com/filespath/files/20210917155201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/059s6k8o9v2k6o2o60195kvgj2/datoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callmarkinvestments.fortunekenya.com/callmark/files/53733899441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135294568bcb---puzitajilapizonusomubuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apnm.indexint.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91307978430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atasuorganiktarim.com/upload/ckfinder/files/38803891795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.161.111/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nojowexinowenixujotote.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c06e43b636c2fcdd3d54fb46d4eeec9e/kupif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avela.md/userfiles/file/zizinukibozezol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.biz/files/files/37108446148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--tnqz8hz5cb8l.com/upload/files/wewugeterejopegakudixaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ee4fe4b734---widanofefuwomowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stjconsulting.it/userfiles/files/69836523549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theartofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/datetumekozege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonymusic.se/UserFiles/files/10270710766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://footstepfloor.com/upfiles/files/gemefudexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhondadejean.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/buzenegujunigawezex.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_off0000b82a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB82A 10288 bytes
SHA-256: 23ba281afa7a68d3443461bf2246dc2d760f2b7e57797d53a5173bab017551f3
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF8B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e79d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE79D 16252 bytes
SHA-256: 23b617fcff31609ca6c5b0f9bfa44c1bff7d5a4f659fe6d13081b48d6bc2c3a2