Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 184cbd871dfa6232…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 21:56:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7109b9a3148a99f7c6a18aa69fdc5462 SHA-1: fdcbc596fa64a82e45584878960ba941e9ba4db3 SHA-256: 184cbd871dfa6232cd7bd60b0562aec2122596b4afcc16e4c05091ed9e9adc57
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a link farm on compromised CMS uploads is a common tactic for hosting malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612bbc5244180---59911703590.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://worldwidefilipinoalliance.com/uploadedFiles/files/jelupugodalop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsara.ru/userfiles/file/xaxenofopavojalasoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metall-press.ru/files/24703745346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b867c35cb9d---70008950254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forglass.sk/userfiles/file/6556760231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dcaa15b52f---bojiwurolitugipuvativowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65b7bcea5c6d7a2fd0dd3be317609046/derobitureram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37bddbj506rsvbbvrp38dartvm/71656110223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ij8po1fitua3aurc7g5vcoc4a/tufajujolarorugefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a62f0b980cd---41777317864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c16243760d2---sadadexodazetadasuxujojuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ppmcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sictd9r7p3vnm315g84vuk6d1f/52838034159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abovomedia.hu/_user/file/tenexalalaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tkhomedeco.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210713042242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec9f7479f41---33635594994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/942545aede37289f5f7f92615baac229/8162363944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://micronforgacsolo.hu/UserFiles/file/pezimafobavuxakibum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=dharmic+religions+pdfPDF 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_off000113e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113E2 18820 bytes
SHA-256: 050b6f2b532afdcc175249cfa79ec2499f992196b73b4dc6a41467b870d0d0ed
font_01_sfnt_off000144a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015cc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15CC0 10972 bytes
SHA-256: b1c2f78ff56a5d7c3e9463abd401aa86015ab99526332a7d561b0c317b2816b2