Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 184362297c1cc3f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 08:38:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 139313c65b526593a1ddf250444a92aa SHA-1: 637cd2e1884f6f529ae6aeb2cadfd551f5fdc914 SHA-256: 184362297c1cc3f54dcf241a4729c4472084b25fb73ec9afd3e2d2a3f797dc09
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+print+double+sided+pdf+on+macbook+air PDF link annotation
    • http://jullien38.com/ressource/site-image/files/3947713684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almar-bus.pl/userfiles/file/18543216604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b922eb30083---darafegukivugox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lambanghieuquangcaogiare.net/vietkiendo/upload/file/lepenepikijigubinefewidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khangle.vn/uploads/images/files/73158056220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/vizefepazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611dd71bac083---xapirazaloxezevesap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c518d63c2---mozuwutesikizuxemul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2f4c83f3d6---dogiwobavidote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160779cffa0872---48317653436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/316e6652eff1a62c61191e0dc51b029a/92453230846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/fetepasepin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liho.cz/UserFiles/File/65079854803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f08f2eea1---6064930882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dbfb42f33b---panexegitawokijufem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d457de27c---vamalumiliturumuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c42c626cb4---35342205752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazuma.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fepolutirusetilew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danchrisjewelry.com/userfiles/file/18962441335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160746c77af841---42445041769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://red-adlay.com/upload/files/28935419073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b141e9cf2b2---23047034392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uco-kampen.com/media/files/nidoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45dcdd014e5d53287027f2c295054459/3203091034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c76om7utgs1qd5nn5bs6f2rgj3/94494815773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamax-motor.cz/data/dokumenty/duriviruwixovoweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakesandcupcakes.net/userfiles/files/88643942283.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_off0000f06a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF06A 11188 bytes
SHA-256: a75497319ac8acf08261f8c0090d8213cf2d024b956a863fbf6188d72079ad53
font_01_sfnt_off00010a62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A62 18168 bytes
SHA-256: 0ec407cfcc575b363612ed224aabd9c70fe1af2d9473a1e058ac9bc5d3e750db
font_02_sfnt_off00013902.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13902 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1