Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84a18a2a286d7022…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-06-30 22:18:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: e092cec29675c291584c77610b682d8f SHA-1: c22445c307cf8dc51de125e6d7fdff51beba21e7 SHA-256: 84a18a2a286d70220fdc2623bf0303de2beb72752b4e8549bb906a1065c7e49f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate this PDF is malicious, likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The embedded URLs and link farm heuristics suggest an attempt to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078143e8647d---pilawokubuworatudaboton.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/77320860604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/10195198792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608270d54ffed---74085179867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56cd85e06f8dc765b3c9e7f20030e024/81974342413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gv62vonn149gk82cm2mpvhlqsj/rosanobilixoropiwoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-16/20210516165718376720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f72e0264f---61187298193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d43b18a3fc4---96559027963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/wowosumezoxalimasemibob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092c65ce6e9c---43832576269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083eabbe1365---xumeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecc2526c6337374870baeceafe1bac09/fixigatifubuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/12909986876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nfe4k5oad78mtq3dn6r8r5hakd/sisufatoladebesox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210627110041752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daf937dd028eb4f951690fad5d19c6ff/jozobofaxokipulutix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd2005586b---rowopexasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tgtech-auto.com/userfiles/file/6557699787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609044f281dd4---gikaxotadipokon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsservice4you.de/bilder/file/58987267988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busangh.com/attfile/fckimg/file///2021062445851_478887758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biolabsrl.org/userfiles/files/60620182476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c46d8ccdbbb---xerujamuwomolon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=if+you+are+18+when+were+you+bornPDF 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_off0000ed44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED44 28068 bytes
SHA-256: 2b748ad6974893033ca8d82710b117f5afa0032abe22daaabf88f0fdebdae3b8
font_01_sfnt_off00012695.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12695 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013eac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EAC 10560 bytes
SHA-256: eda0f69c5bde86476cd9e1b12f9fcdd0d2a182606e5527b504c09d56b6dc9d0e