Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84818f9fed1f366a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-07-25 11:23:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2690ad12df441268937b38e4d509dfcc SHA-1: 59fc97cc9c4c938e68a590eb8b9481182e881d74 SHA-256: 84818f9fed1f366a92f0dec2eb8faaba5510418856517b9ead32029b101ffbd6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. The embedded URLs, despite some being marked benign, contribute to the overall pattern of directing users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d0bedb96f---bapelelupuzaku.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://boucherienabli.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/livisinis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ad164a21b0755b1238f04c5c1514943/84068859102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072833b51ec4---zukigasaxolasujojiburok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/barowunodanerivixejewuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a84c800be---61093394698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecresconsolidamentorestauro.it/fck_data/file/1784559267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53fab005eba56177833aa4d3fd5c8ac4/51429449446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/jewinedof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenvalleykerala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/savudasewolexipatemog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749850750ff---28766083667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triosms.com/userfiles/file/nijokabagum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-v-v.dk/userfiles/file/belowawugulijes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siamsnail.com/media/userfiles/files/fasunavoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watertorens.nl/userfiles/file/52652827121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af9db74f4bfa987937e3f24ccb8e1414/pozumokimewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnc-soustruzeni.cz/files/file/95666755475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/47391170266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d33e33d71c---83184662229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb6d3445ce7---39671659534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alburigiott.it/userfiles/files/jimapulexodarapezevofoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c99c81ac90---zakidup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aedb516a2d67493fd67bb642d5196dcd/17704106489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joesservicecenternj.com/userfiles/files/lefiwiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humicdp.com/uploads/2021-06-21/images/files/lofovanojijaxerizekopojad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=shell+costa+coffee+promotionPDF 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_off0000f239.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF239 17708 bytes
SHA-256: 4fc707dfbd819cb12a9aab8b969b42b9863bbfd38ab02ad602d53dd7a4e2510c
font_01_sfnt_off00012055.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12055 10820 bytes
SHA-256: bfad20326d1ed202936bb7ac6dd88a57ebc9071641cc7e5b19f79d22348571de
font_02_sfnt_off00013918.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13918 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1