Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 184bc87baeb6a352…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 06:14:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ff664fa7853504ab0962e51d4ed0a3c2 SHA-1: c695c5c7e452d5ee6aa490a3d3823da1035822dd SHA-256: 184bc87baeb6a3522552aa5c4c1c9cd3a467ce66d19950bae2361e51177f0a72
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards an attack pattern involving redirection to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=have+has+free+printable+worksheets PDF link annotation
    • https://zoldlepes.hu/userfiles/file/ruwewawit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shangrilatheshow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49048408195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://print-resource.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fejimidatelupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanbangrd.com/userfiles/file/20210806233107_369414096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076024ae730e---zemodipewudumewoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donateagift.eu/userfiles/file/53260232073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newdimension.su/userfiles/file/95306472801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarmy-kamery24.pl/userfiles/file/52736415419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sadrainsurance.com/UploadedFiles/New/file/79794071279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832d4ef1fbc---38645366154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klassn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nakapewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://websurin.net/UserFiles/File/musurudemasewezuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/botavudiletilipede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jevades.com/aircraft/fckimages/file/84848449466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flexi-cms.com/uploads/file/19445424584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techsystem.gr/data/uploads/ckeditor/files/jemezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/3966037226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.motorradfreunde-toggenburg.ch/up/files/31570956135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u5009pp3dhkv9a2jme6snti7s4/74090680038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trekkingsapatours.com/upload/files/wakejimomalowige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akvari-um.ru/userfiles/file/dopovoxojopakitibijipakiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03e94e65ad33f1f4804ee877dda2e8c1/34485690332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081440b881cf---86064543574.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_off0000af6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF6B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c782.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC782 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 50df8391e5cd127ac6e363a7607379d98c88ddcfbae22658e80c2887903991d6
font_02_sfnt_off0000e03a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE03A 15184 bytes
SHA-256: 692bf1137699f294f3ffe53fd2ca13c758a1efc93ad55eeffe5110d22fbc3922