Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df82aa851982c017…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 05:00:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7617d5b002b808a19960df1d9da1fa60 SHA-1: cf876e92abc6f3eac072ce56acfca2ab372de903 SHA-256: df82aa851982c017f8a3636b1a7ee39b0a1b68be81c6f1d0a032b62aa2818b34
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the file being a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, directing users to potentially malicious PDF files. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to phishing or malware-hosting sites, likely as part of a spearphishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096622691d56---jixogizizodobozik.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://diphong.com/uploads/tomuxulipivope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1j97pibfbtbinuu9h6u7t0jatk/97625063778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeworldwide.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/43298097264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erh-hu.com/userfiles/file/25313760787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seashoresilverlabradors.com/clients/4/48/482fd9669fb3260065120a60ccac5e48/File/93302112082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qlljf6dljfodbn2c2cb03rkuj0/47852145385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitnet.hu/editor_up/mipevakejorida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f5ba0fc912aa53a8d39e68bdb21ef9d/11683589705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gh7tb14msbt8a8u8pij5lkkn07/64068190639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitplus.eu/userfiles/file/74542013963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topoint.cc/userfiles/fckFile/20210829132337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/18932079813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbadfbdb8c7---nogukuxuzateroperi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcv-bo.org/data/fcv-bo/userfiles/file/jimejasonajidezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thecoferfamily.com/clients/7/78/7892d776c92a08c80f86ebc6236678d2/File/dibijutopusugusepagowumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrosteadycam.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/646910aa9018614d29328688f191ba6e/faxebalesujajupisut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rbtyutj01.com/userfiles/files/buxoweme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff2c2ca357d---wexakajederojudufunig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9eglstdtdm6grobrbf54cgq0ob/gijaniwononegeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fd5a7cba50c7b10ddea2c074a379873/66066363264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkparkkonutlari.com/image/files/tesagipogodefopaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/16198951115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb29c76c15d---fadusufaveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=clinical+biochemistry+an+illustrated+colour+text+free+download+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_off0000e78a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE78A 11456 bytes
SHA-256: 0bbdd1d7300011a04def10866e9361e3a33de11cec2917303ded4a8f4c358ec8
font_01_sfnt_off0001024c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1024C 18024 bytes
SHA-256: 4f505a9939a1231a3a823080fa258b0f75a17a47ef822e6066b29c7314376b46
font_02_sfnt_off00013106.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13106 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1