Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84908f2dcf608d71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 21:52:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 967fbfdd4281082e2d487ec0f74fe1d7 SHA-1: efcdd8f7a729ad0d824ee2cf33925e52c63bb219 SHA-256: 84908f2dcf608d71c587fd1b188b14971eebeae32add1d03e4746a8e547494c0
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of ClamAV detection and ML flagging strongly suggests malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b441f1e8f86ab82b5801fbe018ba7a0/17183520914.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://intelekt.biz/uploads/pages/files/59067136156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technocom.pl/editor/file/foxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horgaszvelem.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46213548998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bandungmesin.com/file/zumurumanul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcfc2e3c2c3---89970086287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d8520e4d5---40610395029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d97ac6d756bc240d1a208a2db71a486/11973795108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/nijenunamutolideturij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/82852242478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notariocprietoa.com/notaria/documentos/files/wubibekenezolukavij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49f7bf199c31c7704aa13c2e7b34d5c3/74793084958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a08278f08---mipuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161092520ca373---xapewisumepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a38d0c15b278493f6fc769f4c47c3724/84324208032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087fa2bc3afc---52004101078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyvenus.it/userfiles/files/90771408859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j3rfrppo24m4ats7jh1oi6ul6l/jixafivixogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surmounttravel.com/userfiles/files/37923833362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a216cae07b8---gipukoxolufebujesob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a026c93630f7e4c2f729cc5a8d96bea/84366732040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusen-es.info/yamituki-n/uploads/files/supigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottonweb.net/userfiles/file/kedegudoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160875ee0c5358---modurifelaxoxanigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/16040610452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=%C5%A1egrt+hlapi%C4%87+pdfPDF 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_off0000fddd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDDD 10624 bytes
SHA-256: fcb5903cc862aafea2515a363346b3f992bedfe6d4be7e3cb238b54b4b6ce4e0
font_01_sfnt_off00011612.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11612 17920 bytes
SHA-256: be66755ed47cc9938228cf3e547701a14df0b95f299336bc59cff8e93ee0eeeb
font_02_sfnt_off00014338.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14338 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1