Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 834dc84f78719879…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 10:54:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6200db40cc9529fbfbe195dd0b039b45 SHA-1: 77fa6859ded73d4009aa70f806c91bbff0d4dd67 SHA-256: 834dc84f7871987969244cbdb16adeb3c0684d4a744dd68d861b0a253ae7c5a1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting and the use of UTM parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the true destination and potentially engage in SEO poisoning or phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://creative-format.com/upload/editor/files/94078473131.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e9452832ea4---11735456522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4mnrn10ot6c0h8ma0rnq7du97/14073660528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalyna.ua/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/vedetisuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/17288877513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070eadc125aa---23714717944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everestlodgelukla.com/userfiles/file/65049437312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drinkpoint.com/uploads/files/falelas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krasneclanky.cz/uploads/24253985939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwlondonblvd.com/uploads/files/42530853162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/32426172357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d17569d416209e44a9ed914b592e247/17933078840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o79av69abka850ab6c.com/upload/file/202107122308441056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/19079173245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahs1968.com/clients/d/dc/dcea35c349c70fb55dca458fc6558ff6/File/93789347210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4u3ednuli6gq74vohnlcnffvv7/25190541927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a5854339f10d0e10b57363f3241ff2c/87333106585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/taponede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c42e21d288f---72721411009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792d1baefd7---54892093352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://testsitehq.com/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/risedina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapikowski.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/gojifobufunigop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ad19dbf3f2ea8b8158718cfd69c37de/repipojorebure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/poluvipatav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68767af7da6ae56f8a9cac9c0ae211f1/53854461430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=rockwell+hardness+tester+model+hr+150a+manualPDF 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_off0000c4c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4C1 17236 bytes
SHA-256: 8fb51b3bd2e1084c860045fb94b83ed446623802ed653a20075cfa5c4815fef4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f167.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF167 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 35b8372640f8466a298333164cc788e5d3d25739609bdc5669adc3b7f26fa611
font_02_sfnt_off00010b94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B94 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1