Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84456edf18ae066c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-09-13 16:36:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ebb345239973796150c8651001737fe7 SHA-1: bf4348e3826ac02159ba8c7b9c0d69f947ac938f SHA-256: 84456edf18ae066cae0142f87d2d4ef27ebd5c9539f6a2c4fe676c670b7f4c31
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL targets suggest exploitation of user trust to redirect them to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 https://budapestpainter.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fojililusimas.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee805db45defdfeb5b548637fe611a89/gafakopuwovebifuvova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traktorpulling.de/ablage/userfiles/files/43650287541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfraccon.org/userfiles/file/56263442934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oris-am.com/editor_up/63530882495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsi-international.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49819559576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5279c91295e37fe5147f8e25de606127/pevekeguruloge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaqalsports.com/files/file/xudov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138ba0a22b66---12910946711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.around.hu/files/article/file/66432175200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/files/mapekekete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podiummoda.ru/userfiles/file/riwotusokima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jsptti.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70632981959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2p8ufj6gme51jkp8dv3leqcgb/rudemekupalovutij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613db57c585c9---13626918964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dialog-seversk.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ponuloxofazavurupuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ashasuchikala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wemij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161369cab98590---26279241775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubyyadav.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/demuzasalonik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-uchebnici.com/img/file/70532769946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tribo.kz/userfiles/File/90279939987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///vokox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signika.pl/Upload/file/82961622656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=best+car+drifting+gamePDF 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_off0000b934.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB934 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d146.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD146 15616 bytes
SHA-256: d79afd5d3b5bf80092aa2520a27afe97ff541308b82ce962fb9099e98cf49b88
font_02_sfnt_off0000f82b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF82B 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 974567f178c6895c14845fda5aa8ee0179925373436a583381cd377808635abf

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