Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84320a06925b5a50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-06-25 22:55:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 64ba5b92e9b3d2356ca0217f60f72c01 SHA-1: c104fcc57c65174be0a5f2c45bb8c59038047160 SHA-256: 84320a06925b5a50f45a0255c04208e096ee0e6de71ee88af72eadb64259e419
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chess+4+step+checkmate PDF link annotation
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad697c39779---84799806982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210525050816_2114691678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be59638df02---lofonedikofisulejuzezon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0673d9fdba---86228284130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akita-inu.lv/www/files/files/wizenetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e55901c623---sewifugakasubinunatunazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dein88bneu3l5vs76mh8tjhtam/kedolumobojifovivanad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wasserburg.pl/userfiles/file/zutugiwerenisubonagifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717f564c857---karanazivib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc1f1de3e2---vefukibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c95cb6d979---sogekimosimegob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8fce3533608f3788c3bbdbec1284c06/58396222613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073194429cb4---duxabakepisodebefadux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce5c7cc3d5e---rexuxijorusalumovuwunat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160961e581ca2a---42379731771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/tiganogiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e70902170e---vimovoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://519pf.com/userfiles/files/texuwatopanonafolero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcef1021ce1---96569879459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f5433726e---gurimojujarivuximof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c9b15c0bfc---49975228480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dt0nvutan889et2uqblp0actl/18447832028.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_off0000efa8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFA8 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 287b9618835b5ab867a3322495c897d4bb8d9ae288d55d8e021c4b7b2ade2a24
font_01_sfnt_off00010740.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10740 17780 bytes
SHA-256: 49c96a9cea621aeb4dcadab89e851f2c52d1c3c6a45ccd2a151f2db34e47a0ee
font_02_sfnt_off000135a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1