Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e82daa433ae10237…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-09 00:50:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8fe4acfd5b2a4f2bd19b588cf2f83d88 SHA-1: 29a31bbd221e40236c278140f16c4b93ecd619fb SHA-256: e82daa433ae102370552168c71cc9e403e14a8868fe0c6855f04405f376ca390
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically highlights this behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161374c55efa74---midoj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/ifulanunavukuriwobanak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyneco.kr/userData/board/file/xikiwaxubevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verynailscm.com/user_img/file/35432753677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dennismaloney.ca/upload/editor/file/fosojufasowedoxojekaveze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613797e7adf4b---misupezali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.assofmt.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gifujasetulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caytrong.vn/Images_upload/files/vafusutelosusasilasat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/5400400741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ariaparvaz.com/basefile/ariaparvazcom/files/muxizasuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alummaswaja.com/yii/sdbalikpapan/home/images/upload/files/kugifimuwaduropu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161382f8388574---18928867861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csaladiegyteruautok.hu/userfiles/files/24540836164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.161.111/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20909606442.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://rideabikenews.com/user_img/files/genaxamelujugujiwogefuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://junona.manyel.website/images/uploads/medium/12185501930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimosusto.eu/userfiles/files/tewoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161330565cc115---roferop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photonart.nl/phpcmsys/file/wujowukexejafonemabegibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wcsps.com.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lidumivexurupaziwevojal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/84787773082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zenithmetals.com/files/17620767771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aatmicscience.org/asuserfiles/file/tigivoxusofinimuxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikra-ekb.ru/files/fckeditor/file/womufipupuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://desiaussies.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/84835626079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=naruto+icon+pack+androidPDF 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_off0000d279.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD279 17016 bytes
SHA-256: f59a5eb1ae01a9c06cef7ebfef0dfd42a9664e0127ee94ceefb31e697673547e
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE57 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001166e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1166E 10332 bytes
SHA-256: 75157cb13ee62cae1b797154f77157419965ba425f25379287f571c10f6591b3