Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84581c1479423401…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 19:53:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 78c2558ebfc9b7a095f5e3adf0138688 SHA-1: 521e3bcbfd1bcd01bb39eaced2d2b2fb173aa0e0 SHA-256: 84581c1479423401a27901efa2620bde1ecb334adcf51ec20d6f5f466971a187
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to direct users to external content, consistent with phishing or malware distribution lures. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely involving the exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities or the delivery of malicious content via the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=periodic+table+basics+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://wolfpackbasketballacademy.com/content_docs/lolanedetirajaluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dayuntang.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210907172336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41e9eacdfce9a2cbe664203ab4e0522d/gubifexazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b9becbc147---bajafuwujitaxupofesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestopc.it/upload/file/jowatapumixivim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglatalkies.com/dynamic-images/cms/file/75640830903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superlitefan.com/uploads/files/17737543892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunde-katzen.at/soubory/43999284386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at2-turbo-j3t.com/contents/files/xobiraseberopeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://media-get.ru/userfiles/files/jatut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umutfm.com/resimler/files/dazoxumutafaxirewigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hwayoung.kr/upfile/files/2363825843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9453513922a3fd5edf0b16cce2fc324/kafowudakilaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balie.overeembv-profielen.nl/upload/files/67400672415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t2sc.me/userfiles/jedezani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmkonsult.cz/userfiles/file/30374659537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orvosvalaszto.hu/uploads/files/58143780184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windfreeklima.com/upload/ckfinder/files/revozerutemiliros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/3366213456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbu.vn/Images_upload/files/4766469161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domoticasociale.it/immaginiNewsletter/file/dewejibutowatepipep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakamurasangyou.jp/app/webroot/uploads/files/4409183221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netwindowvn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/49583837077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://headlinesdinerla.com/uploads/files/35586315102.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_off0000c259.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC259 16856 bytes
SHA-256: cec0184d62e47741b3a1d0ade3034cffa1c0227919ac3180b226a3fed37ab014
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010553.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10553 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 9e90a6a5e2d68ea8b10e850e7b41e9a703ce6be8cb93f336779eb8f544a7aea2