Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84243549818705b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-07-19 08:50:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8549ac42647be2bebf13deff1f700e07 SHA-1: fd16bb59e989c8bef5fcd804dbdf9b14b6514897 SHA-256: 84243549818705b1b79c996a064248484d364c92981aee17a041851f89f1b420
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. The heuristics indicate the document is a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, likely serving as a lure for users to download further malicious content. The presence of 'invoice' and 'download button' lures reinforces this phishing-like behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d35db7c703---fejetozen.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bvkko99gplk54j8n5r0o7hj1b/89179321114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://le27.fr/docs/file/mizigole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mchs67.com/clients/6/60/601da637195afcc8544498be66ee72b0/File/552582708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaae7amexjfdlfdfg.xn--p1ai/files/file/fijotepuwurojutipatiwurar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnatiukreunion.com/clients/b/b5/b5561851e3069b632e798ef7a1275556/File/piputu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60c7fdb9a3457ff0047454ce4e3b7319/tugedanixinajon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosedreamholidayhomes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21537123480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e43e5ba08c5af9018d1bba1b2748d18e/63268548684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc18cd80f99---xatamejifebaxavixogeseru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d307748eb3b19a7f75733e7303c4cda/71136106017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5atr9dvfkng56d1fvuf05l0j4i/kaxipodamusenefujegape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/613ge7ve0jq6abgsbpma9epgku/rukiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27f513985f4983e7f603285f786d9509/kawusavegowapodupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-baby-clothes.com/d/files/58204423836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2976e6fcf7ba8d4a4389b80388e2e631/20843325828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheinmotel.com/userfiles/file/kuxevagarigikawaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tunnel.de/files/uploaded/file/litemabibaduwitefumuwubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasici-pristroje-eshop.cz/files/file/komofobew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c108484a723---41289604332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9c7f9918d---69507647837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06cd32cd5fd6f55ec5db4a5666ef44b7/80609575851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=lpo+format+excel+free+downloadPDF link annotation
    • http://crossfit28.com.s125853.gridserver.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/napexupuvewarusorukomujib.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_off0000f2d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2D7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010aee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AEE 10664 bytes
SHA-256: e981943d9863844001fd7aa74a66b70ccb3da8c63867945c7eefd52009e9fff0
font_02_sfnt_off0001236d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1236D 17264 bytes
SHA-256: a07ed968151cb9e6776d2ae48496840ed13e35957c0e859377829ee10807a2da