Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84403775df207a55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 02:15:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a9374292e160c70813cfe5b02fe4bb14 SHA-1: bef9f23cb441ca339b6d9ba45ac5993f15bd7c6a SHA-256: 84403775df207a5596729963d4e60e2df2637ecc3ca887e8609062a6f5c7373d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised websites or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the presence of URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/wewazolilikiririluto.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://odontoflash.eu/userfiles/files/67591047967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7677c92cbfa4ae72b9ad22874fe0f346/ralezexemar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreaslasnik.com/data/files/29170166768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipost.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48885775757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4644178ac54eadeec8d341164df013e1/1306828588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliothequedesarts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71126261552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ginecologmuresan.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29372799948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dce3077c0b8---genonuwofavisefisoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edmcenter.xyz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38809754627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://music-saikung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35391328516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topupdana.com/contents//files/42833415089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comtraining.cl/userfiles/files/62975480152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfcf78e714722d4860b0013f5263612b/33481293353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adams-gold.ru/archive/image/file/11566019763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://v-rshine.com/upload/images/files/55508969233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skillmapmagazine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12491875612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/37612631559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ec0fb846a16aca12fa3c74bb8a34adf/fabirowupato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087dadf994d8---dupopodilovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatsah.com/webroot/img/files/85061943190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nezrenweb.com/calisma2/files/uploads/tutitesuxilitojurobam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf93000839c---pazimesebajizororewuzumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c837581540d27ad456dc8e553a0c1e67/nuburelet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608df48a85954---81982849055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bc-arman.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47013573800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szrealty.net/uploadpic/2021-5/file/2021052402505473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=almost+single+advaita+kala+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_off0000dea1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEA1 18656 bytes
SHA-256: 646d62dc1baea74889f8c27027d1d9dac421097147f88f5c6004f683fb4c8b4c
font_01_sfnt_off00010eaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EAF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000126c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126C6 11068 bytes
SHA-256: e220606f8503930dd5e88623f7ce36ae17d4df7ed283027d69596e81c1f0704c