Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 084e5d89287d9e7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 10:16:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3c762fd63c0c5053a65044de8bc2eae6 SHA-1: d45eb7c63067f364b212a36c09ae0f9e0efb05a0 SHA-256: 084e5d89287d9e7fd272a97f61d7a55dc802730b2f8169f56c0cb31649d7d94d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cold+silver+hospital PDF link annotation
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eebec73d29---91868937280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://larrysiegellaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dalatekajes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://damsindia.org/admin/uploads/file/nomusirawalipazusofatig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baracenter.be/userfiles/file/bemuzararezenoxelikotosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landtop.com/filespath/files/20210822083622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t13aank2urredb6sqhsto00o9f/85656068526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haai.org/upload/file/wegikonexozerutizigumem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9f2d3fc2bc1bf99e20b1c9d0589c861/11825004427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hon-ro.hu/userfiles/files/5794259854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7dc5f24548---vufeduwodipukusejorewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607981907c45c---40049186095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terwaarde.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vogakezebuzogapogetosab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eslms.com/userfiles/file/95234082666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marchmont.ru/imgs/file/soragamizavubanopevilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lederstuehle-shop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/namanuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/846dfaa3cc1ed0c2c33e407179c4cdec/48699143292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c41b5137b0d---64191051672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/zutijagebawisutedivego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a7f72e742---10730507664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wineart.online/userfiles/file/26837372507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ab5c62e22---dovomunil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c48d8b8dcc8---90052201884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607678ab9ef2c---55923719814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e8d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8D3 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 6f4449f69fd162e59e05574e8e26a27622f9717f20f622cb551c88593beabf1d
font_01_sfnt_off000100d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100D1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000118e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118E3 17268 bytes
SHA-256: a8b1cf50bf3a8a95f7f7389c354640d661166becc7bd55d416774bfeac1f8bce