Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84089dffa66b3254…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-07-13 04:54:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: f081d509b3fd509b4bb5e909d7fb3e74 SHA-1: 0a310cf5bfa2eb3f49c1f58dafc2e9f1c3fdc81e SHA-256: 84089dffa66b3254270faec57e8c724ed7db800ff742d68d3375c4f7d5fda538
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains, functioning as a link farm. The heuristic 'SE_URGENCY_LURE' suggests the document may contain deceptive language to prompt user interaction, further supporting a phishing or scam-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://cn-polylysine.com/d/files/tupenevexevipepuro.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/97245235883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/64802893692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksuskalology.com/images/file/jixiged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202105052114183506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rqvs4q23lc640d33ufju2b6hlo/sodonuduvimafumabululev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798da73ad53---47387390046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fouladsazanco.com/Upload/file/fugajetivot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appli-veolia.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dojotoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://446888.top/userfiles/file/46822854046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa63008286---nitomawazidugawivekesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/fuwanisez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egca.fr/userfiles/file/57992695633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basalyemek.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bimuxixarama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.serenissimaservizi.com//files/42057014093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuruvedenlukio.fi/tiedostot/file/kekolagamowotirami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hbfilm.ca/resimler/files/femixija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.eu/app/webroot/uploads/file/16200937975788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/76281445878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9af666cb525e44d78646ba11791ed73/nebevopugagomixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088179203e2b---7975729363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6d67a6324a3fd9413f37f8bb154163e/67993785647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcfkenzi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5897338210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093fd686844f---7459465226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/gudanero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d31bb92e911---87160465792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=what+really+happened+in+the+garden+of+eden+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_off00010113.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10113 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 6f89d6b43ba90e7c5c858157480e22be4a0f9317cca473f4fab66fccbf6c8db7
font_01_sfnt_off00011967.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11967 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013179.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13179 17880 bytes
SHA-256: 47ce4f6223bdd317ebf9e537ff1217470e6d52c5a1b48e8aac892ab0407cb63b