Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84a298e5bdbcbef3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-07-01 13:07:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 7c4e5247d57e052a984d61fbb85f031f SHA-1: a05a73d38c4057d9b0f608cde9cf7ca18f980807 SHA-256: 84a298e5bdbcbef39004c2b97dd4ad90f252c625f5b4c55ff299f7a785438cdb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic findings point to a malicious link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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 http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/kiladizoketawo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gramercy-grand.ru/files/file/xunud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1mflp0rebgb12moef6hkr7vug/sixofanebum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochistandart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64140083783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0653c62d2aa22b847b90bae176df23e3/47498612414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd1eb0d9344---dunevif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amursvoidom.ru/media/files/59778381491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titadoorbinhduong.com/upload/files/40997796519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1dca4a26e4---lamuradakopetexorabevin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a30e7404102de4a406ee79972f087a5/dotosis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e107202853---jimitufewobaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcca313c82e---fenubuvedufibosisenapoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpind.pl/userfiles/file/janitekozaxusebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsrmmessina.it/userfiles/files/80580943593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092f5e69db75---vuwilofokosez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautybybelief.com/admin/images/file/tobob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/822278768609bb5a2968ac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2ed755733f---vetatikixibajome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5fbb45d6da---ruwozof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akademia-jedenastka.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/85753299631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alibabaoman.com/basefile/alibabaomancom/files/14253495351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iohrp.org/f_files/files/49988792510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.herbertvanderbrugghen.nl/draft/83175341980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac4bfc47cb4---renexoresugudaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608219b42e9c6---simujodokebumane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1.com/contents//files/tewilugusepibapiriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=citrate+for+crrtPDF 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_off0000be40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE40 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d657.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD657 10040 bytes
SHA-256: 71011c4c28aa817516968ebce0ff86cd3bfa19fd34c1b60ca67b41a8613eabd4
font_02_sfnt_off0000ecd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECD2 15244 bytes
SHA-256: dc0b3af108669da012ddf30cbd94ec45850526580dce9fba8f0d3db968c84366