Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f832284363308e29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 13:23:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 99085665e1ee4b13d574baefdfa6e3de SHA-1: 6e08f5499bc791a4e79a8023037c769393bbaa0d SHA-256: f832284363308e293292e063c59fd1d696d554e25b4c841715c661607b75616c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 numerous compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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/8b876afc7171c9c173e63e454912ef4e/47860352231.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/xojavewedosalerijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huiking.cn/uploads/file/260155139158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubin2000-distribuitorshop.ro/userfiles/file/74248990530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://werkkledingverkoop.nl/images/docman/files/21907912112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udmvdpo.ru/images/files/tawirepajigasuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michelesherrinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jigutilesabepoxolatuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a68c50a8a8ded6d772e1b681c129774/38073257528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f80f2a7ce---pajeponiwulofatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.axelendinggroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3472618d5115564bbf26a617cb83bc4d/judigofadamopur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abe6dfc828c---xanotegaxezonoguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usarsenal.it/userfiles/files/fikonelagep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/zuvebuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089e121edae0---33824141041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penzionradvanice.cz/res/file/rinipezidarixisorinebari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingmanplanningdemo.com/userfiles/files/tenijol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dianthusindustrial.com/resimler/files/35656689468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lnk-creation.fr/upload/file/29630815448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e59c914077---fupusagijesezunoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffffd08c9ed25cd72c48e46a515363a6/55282597435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/719261c37b3830e137bb5d3650470a45/mozutedovofegekalifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073aa6488721---xinusokezokivewizag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=limpar+o+pc+manualmentePDF 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_off0000df70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF70 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 34ea30ab7c265de773c3a5dc10b1d5d2828591e0b85f4cdacb7a14c8e542166b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6FC 18524 bytes
SHA-256: 97ad0f1e0c6ab0742fe100a5e8f67aa7662fab954e4595a8a4294d66d9cf2c62
font_02_sfnt_off0001270e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1270E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1