Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84248bba8e1b70dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-07-02 22:29:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: f7769861f7c5e5dd4cadaba7f3bc73ed SHA-1: 4868a8eecb05cf294dce58f2a526b8adbc21fd62 SHA-256: 84248bba8e1b70dda411420b6971eb972a426aa373cc7f32dbb7adc79e700c1a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed to lure users to malicious content. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports a phishing or distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9834

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://dataction.org/demo/dataction/media/44682683066.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iqn2a65totp7d238ieivrqusv2/92197105450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6oj579mber5ihctm268s4mrtep/rebisibegoruxegidovap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093fdf9a84ed---16221479310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9de5b3e109023d660048d560859f897/29715464990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbf47763817ff5e859688d8de1b59c5a/67161740878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bba3d3a74ed2e1e9d3fba0f14d81dbe8/dewalopokedom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073105a284a5---rututonovebozuwapik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://self119.net/upload/userfiles/2021/06/files/210613004324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infoenergie-loire.org/userfiles/file/16366270954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://change-sexy.com/files/files/tivewejose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e766d03e9a6295082a055827f34a8d4d/texozenujibotusuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jakebenmd.com/clients/0/0e/0eef9d569b11303d075d19626cc6f958/File/77157091657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cec9b1311f258965bbdf976e033d801/xulawewanujevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec8455d896---newededegabedugajiler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607117e9b39ed---86181857794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancedynamicsla.com/clients/38740/File/65108825375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/490013081242e7a31fbd1525642f4f50/40337310193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d7fe0e5dfa---togetinukitupokamapeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinivideo.hu/sites/infinivideo/files/fuwinarelim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/7271309303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02qnod1av2me2j75qivic14l07/15846954846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4ba60a6ca---tawazoxalaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b7f2e0029e---6605070809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungwoneng.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/42699833965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e48ab624c0---65621572808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0a6fa3e10cb9644c4656d8269bc9ef3/xinelulerukosexanol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=the+source+power+of+happy+thoughts+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000e645.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE645 11072 bytes
SHA-256: daa94158f3760b02b54b2eb3e403f765274f3b88e0ed5ea0c9e95b9ace7d73cd
font_01_sfnt_off0000fffa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFFA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001180c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1180C 16708 bytes
SHA-256: 271e9442cbf519e46fbdd4b7540d6a1fe9d1a367807290eeb4d36f39154b6c9d