Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f831295077850a82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.5 KB Created: 2021-07-03 05:51:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: aa1fc8004119407d45ec01c4f6212768 SHA-1: b1c99ed15956956264d3a139b4c0fd3c9188402c SHA-256: f831295077850a82eb93d3941cb6563a52c4ba512fc0e4e35776016c9ca92387
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'link farm' heuristic indicate a likely phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6182cae10245f859357426a06cc850d7/favokewam.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0uvoi5qcl0bt3rhpfht8m3s8j3/31046180606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8otj3voue1i5m8g6cv8iv3h8u1/5162929984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609858a55b5ca---63969470637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbhs1967.com/clients/8/89/8985ce50e7417da620f75e2af787291b/File/kixejogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202106250358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinka.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46303430783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetcasatenovo.it/userfiles/files/17366889018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayfamilycircle.com/clients/5/53/53cd9f4101e72b768929e5daf979c2da/File/dinufise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vljainandco.com/userfiles/files/loxiledetabidewated.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stoewebdesign.no/userfiles/file/wigabemupidewepulep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-p-fortune.com/userfiles/file/46158317624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e583052c9---mimuwuposutepizunafak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienlanhbachkhoa.info/upload/files/3661615071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c5f8ef0b4d66a678f60be10295e3be1/69593904842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14b8682454402320580a8101826c8c66/jedolusuzupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba8f8b72aa---42712344442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/meusc8554jg4e2o7ptksec78pk/59670688017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/varepalivupumufol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://timjanen.se/anvandarbilder/53/files/92640454701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bahtiyardishekimi.com/fckfiles/file/fewaxeporu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/894e6d63066681e65cdf2ea336299de0/95786982387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bracyfamilyreunion.com/clients/c/c2/c2db1a97f769835965582c74015c7782/File/78724476370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f261b42cc5---fezupogemobejiwafarulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=workplace+grievance+letter+templatePDF 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_off00011218.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11218 10700 bytes
SHA-256: a8833e88d2710997a46bd25cc0c04cc93d7ba727aa13e44d1cb809230db1d486
font_01_sfnt_off00012aa7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AA7 17700 bytes
SHA-256: 0e4e80d40f489ae89beb9ad4d63ea9cad9de2244bc9dad7d9f68edee4144ad3b
font_02_sfnt_off000158b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x158B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1