Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84578e07a48b2a89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-08-02 01:44:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: df5b29fe6fca0b96de1df9a359a0fa4d SHA-1: 9d2b600a85fd38c79df1337279b2c6b348168abe SHA-256: 84578e07a48b2a892d2991794309fb58e87255c41f97dbbf9f8517b904927600
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly suggest the primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://argyleliquidations.com/userfiles/files/54579796038.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3020ea2dd9ee8055245beefc156868e/84341943515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelstore.tn/userfiles/file/48867414022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee3bbcb470ba853fb78624743628fde4/12858842399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089f9528dfeb---30161358614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e15662d7b7---zasadezunopalokab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607edac429542---51700168482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c827454ab---56759288939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fizjoactiv.eu/Upload/file/vededefetavatulivop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indago-rovigo.it/userfiles/files/25144183881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistakalikotenetwork.com/userfiles/file/galadurukata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlspublishing.in/data/eimages/file/12479346654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plagij.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vomidakudavotofanimivuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fee17634eecb18439181f9983d1d5a1/71586559799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/54550324092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donghocasiochinhhang.net/uploads/userfiles/file/pawenifak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingtassinari.eu/userfiles/files/fezeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f065e3db1ceff8f926c563b4b0cb859/34551125936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thueotodn.com/uploads/image/files/73605115211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160776cf6d82c7---todeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dhmdu1pp85j15n364u5cq0pgt8/27292113394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ac31339ae---riwajosutaxijiguwexevuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/agewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=is+there+a+wonder+woman+2+coming+outPDF 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_off0000f2dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2DD 16544 bytes
SHA-256: a084d60f376ac50824965cbfa0ec4b050c5874d97d50431f90fd6f7d226ffd86
font_01_sfnt_off00011dd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DD0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000135e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135E7 11028 bytes
SHA-256: a68153bbcada1493e26454203e0f726d3bbda6909065a204b7e6068b73c9181b