Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d82d39802dfa3ab9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-08-08 22:23:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 428c8bc19ce297f9fa8f84fce8f20df8 SHA-1: 53e0572be35724e6fb31f7247aee0609e2acda03 SHA-256: d82d39802dfa3ab9a8c0a6e69cae6681056f30f0c966dbe0ff00bd59b1f8004c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the PDF being part of a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The document body is obfuscated, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/kugaboxegonapukisofebejor.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.eu/res/file/fuvulif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contactconfiance.com/files/files/puwewesenalevifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnyor.az/userfiles/file/4823080101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentistvanpatika.hu/upload/file/xinitapelavesojojifiwir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bef1912a8a---19943603104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancedynamicsla.com/clients/38740/File/xefuxedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parfumzone.ro/files/file/30927877215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/44721974303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d1ae125542---biwunesilanusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saothienemb.com/uploads/images/files/tedikogobadiruvijesug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8834ebb303aada64a445e4599490d41d/5903964320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevenseahotel.com/uploads/images/files/pavijud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/suzibesasilekikatakide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elliptical-trainers.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17913712673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/xedikumimatiribalimofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lmleadmanagement.com/userfiles/files/lakiniwawijata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/maethgfvk1t5b7a4c1fu9780ej/64358407934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/bivame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnkls.com/userfiles/file/1626917125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gistys.com/userfiles/file/95484124341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sv9ladhf7qgav4tfcvmqlecj3l/ninujuxoxefor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classtool.info/upload/files/fasenanunub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/ruxedadidewuvadupodib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shreyaghoshal.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/razawaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b03a49d48d3---xemubidesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=bohemian+rhapsody+piano+tab+pdfPDF 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_off0000cbc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBC9 17284 bytes
SHA-256: 201fee7e3f8db0eded37b4e6e3225a6a447e45383214a9df5586280d70ed3d47
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7C4 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 6c2e7921119bc189f3b3bdf0d0342a614eb8b3a09805db7d89d5a461cf8357c6
font_02_sfnt_off00011105.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11105 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1