Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d84d4ef3a0df19b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.7 KB Created: 2021-06-13 17:51:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a74a0008c01f8a4b09859283a274a79e SHA-1: 11890c50f9431bc408923fcbe13afd82e8aa4080 SHA-256: 7d84d4ef3a0df19bf5a7ad7c55a00949ad8b9e2ce41d66f0ca639b98959b4912
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing or downloader attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=young+nudy+slimerre+download PDF link annotation
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bab43d2fe7---zugakatijojikegonido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e7ae42cfef---raxebetojigunid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flygarfield.net/userfiles/file/5587725289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k463lmdpo4q218ii8irlu8fvio/penolisafesoxorik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/lusibusugevulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ck-kutnahora.cz/gais/image/file/55025288559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hu4fcbjdp3j967kmec2q29pt8b/pejugofosisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608784e042296---49854510036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8de0d7b2e4---navobitositebizizedawif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a4721f4964f9672344e8481b818c826/14354992366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94888412c082a394906ed75203bb783f/9011679701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/69982334163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/etmcdhpvrmh40d0du2mc9nnvp1/bufilatofubulagej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c3cdaoso8vji69pk5m7eero8j/51957544728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paoladebenedetti.eu/userfiles/files/dolosozipajepufajibapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00015f71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15F71 5300 bytes
SHA-256: e261dd9c25a246f6a9a94ef3428411cd89a836c9dd9d7baa6c124a578e23dabf
font_01_sfnt_off0001717b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1717B 11804 bytes
SHA-256: 3a144183d14154fd4b6d8e3bf6a30661d670423165d86bbb866252eea8cfc340