Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84743626a7cab9fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-01 11:30:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: b500d5b6cc4a8248e839ba070c74800f SHA-1: d1df9f1c3f83d9b7ea51f90227caddb89bf628db SHA-256: 84743626a7cab9fa04201fb55064dbb2425c7549fd7e6f423ee19f221d829f19
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external URIs and the nature of the heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://www.acetechnology.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/smug9j4kb0vla83olrip40bshl/fijukojamerezoxekavoxibif.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ligonfamilyreunion.org/clients/9/9a/9a44987365eba454cd9b2deda39aa7c0/File/62493033208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/857d7410333d4459dc617964a63bff14/1749898445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hge022eo5a1m4diqfmno0nd7k4/fidogutafogorupimap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789c2040078---vabukarozukemunepotugis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/78755915272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4479e7fad---20136450026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a69d817e60---tupulubajekelixonewupiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/golitapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/19520547585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8de1146b3a---mugibemedosogozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichgiahy.com/upload/file/2161365884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5itpafmaiitptfhed0co909k8/gijituxiduvejor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhs1966reunion.com/clients/1/1c/1ca8f1639ee69cd7806809ed3bcda9bb/File/delapitulixasepuzawor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/084f588c9f617d7b250fbf6875156abb/6380228367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnzhongkui.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/uploads/file/281926415717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vakantie-noordlimburg.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nevovokepirofobudibil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cf9607ff7c5be41e9a84534791d3cc0/42391378774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taiwancy.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/bemos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a59d2649489db5e6f045b1d25190dfc/sopejajasemavuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobspace.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/95734191785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home-consult.lu/userfiles/files/96295503417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digidatadecolombia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4e8e6213ab8cfe8e4ac3b74fb605729/miberitalamesuniruzelug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=horizontal+analysis+of+comparative+financial+statements+includesPDF 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_off0000e9d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9D5 16636 bytes
SHA-256: 705a8a2d7936b683d51333b5f053f896af5a4ce0552572adfaa5684e268ac1dc
font_01_sfnt_off0001152e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1152E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D45 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 56cc0668bb7088921854ef21c7b0c5cdf74037de056a88403f8069f63ac7b9f4