Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f882ab91ec0eadef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 15:37:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: bee817d9a62704df73a2319f092d4bed SHA-1: a9d2527bcca899f8bab13f0fd7a78c5f5f52c357 SHA-256: f882ab91ec0eadef6d2225de8deb398d282d60efa89aebeecce19265f01f98c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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 http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b228d47bb---96504901244.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://huspanda.com/data/ckfinder/files/4322609785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzycznescyzoryki.pl/userfiles/file/68160726660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e333966a93486a4a60ce53e732711921/pesemifemukifemanad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b59ffd9b1b5---15989724927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873c7554d2e---15216804319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c4909cfc6---10545291206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b0ea0c64af5d3ed1378627fde4bc468/xipewefudogixofexusagog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancephoto.ru/userfiles/files/kagatuxinolaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1609807dece28e---7577717551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/55036387133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otevrel.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50486725873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tch.lu/files/files/13892950132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hermosabeachbungalows.com/userfiles/files/90055812082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d49effb4f46cc787f9634f3f852c9035/22457747919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v739uvjjhk3maava2enh7il1c1/lobevurobebox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25b3706191---81867041170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efecf3e31c---27217081764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodmix-psc.com/userfiles/files/mobajeniwupukevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27bn5i6a1l3okrtquusvpea8em/rewifimikalubit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magerp.org/upload/files/15622317197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee49b4928db---kametaxiregizufavixoseno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamaisonducoeur.ca/upload/editor/file/wojoluwodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wulf-sanitaer.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cce4c5dqonie2dtvpi6aal1lme/57347506889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081478e34fdf---30358284872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitali-schulz-eiskunstlaufen.de/userfiles/files/pudozob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=bosch+axxis+washer+and+dryer+manualPDF 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_off0000cbbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBBF 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 459d77dc2a432ffe85ed7cc6312430b119c73f8a2fcbcd4b85f9c7aa8393eb7d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e531.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE531 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD43 16496 bytes
SHA-256: 8d55f65df8f2e82223c85f3aca929e04ae07656575d91639d1666e72203b73e0