Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84504bc62d4da5b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

141.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:26:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6067c14d9e035a34ad767d2903c1bbeb SHA-1: 1489c798e71d92d720273e13587b560cbbdab4a9 SHA-256: 84504bc62d4da5b6f9ebb4503d39a7255ac8df1a25522f0b1817429b0c87f036
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of these links and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malicious content delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161197d3096f48---maxatirofapazoliruvatefa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://togclick.com/media/userFckfiles/file/kuwexivatosifimutiwino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhongyuemedia.com/filespath/files/20210815112703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketnoikienthuc.com/upload/files/36296932780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q7fv527n4iak3e2ph0ic7ppsc2/webebilukep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teamwork-poetschke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tepot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalparkhotel.com.ve/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6435701563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d94b20ac6d---ponekon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f3ad02a7ad---nedenumojabifuwemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb1082b94a52cc42077de9702d883b78/88878951437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee2af800ee---kafofojolobuxanexozuvitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailitara.lt/bites/uploads/file/43890179550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/mumelinenuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7166867.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kadun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doluhosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/tifokaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innovad-ltd.com/userfiles/file/zajibonalotajulafosufon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotolantopeni.cz/file/5481522722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8a59d58dec33f939dbb69dc49a1f500/notugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egf.tw/test2/images/file/90022661609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/trhiqrtn8jk416beua1jqmehp7/11115373214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b432h75uohcs8pk0gt7lpavb96/70789254882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a3e3f3a4c87bcf058ef65240947faaa/90801819901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmusicdesign.nl/userfiles/file/kupafulipurilelisevebogaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.sg/images/users/00000000/files/bigijirejowiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faxik.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39773864809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=triconex+3008+manualPDF 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_off0001c718.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C718 18376 bytes
SHA-256: ff809cfb0c8bd8d67cd858ee3d0ae38e37225573ffdf6451594c9f310f061cb7
font_01_sfnt_off0001f797.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F797 10792 bytes
SHA-256: ae08dd2bcbdcaf0aa95d7ccbdafe760c6b18958111b382e8fdca24220a63e38d
font_02_sfnt_off00021073.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21073 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1