Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84a2e2968bb5074d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 01:44:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b9ec8ce0e2654213d49f6c468c18c161 SHA-1: 6062cccd5d1f1e9f59773ef9bc87628c7f0c4465 SHA-256: 84a2e2968bb5074db9496da050a767a202d5e8b99a2a7f3f8b23032629f33af9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=parade+in+arabic
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e8fd981db---repifixidobo.pdf
    • https://elnativocoffee.com/silver/upload/files/5069187068.pdf
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17f3449cf6007487da78a0618c83cb09/30547975779.pdf
    • https://bartonsteel.com/tony/barton/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gubuf.pdf
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bec9f09b8a---80217071583.pdf
    • http://thegioioto.store/upload/files/nikev.pdf
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/rutotikipoviwabavosog.pdf
    • https://iominneapolis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5248f28fadf7a68ab5a00f33653f0e96/jadudaxo.pdf
    • https://yellowstonewildlife.com/21293582784.pdf
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac3a5ipqvrut00qjjhf7qkrro2/28277178704.pdf
    • https://ecole-anglais.com/upload/files/24737991821.pdf
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d128b919b7---zapemadozalomun.pdf
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ecb0956c1---34650119778.pdf
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d3bdba466---95917113601.pdf
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a4d7ca745---92036564791.pdf
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085230a270a1---zaxajasona.pdf
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775ad1745e7---95972713131.pdf
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a5a9aeb193---2289739922.pdf
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdedadc679d---dupumuvalesopixogow.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off00012459.bin
801ca84406a943a15c68069c32f69a4d7763ed9f092fbe686956d16efb10bf20
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x12459 30828 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off0000f5dc.bin
7a64416b4c0ae31543cf443bc7c7ecdcbe069ee690aeb15c43a62f48e6de3835
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5DC 10072 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010c48.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C48 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00015a1a.bin
594f0f97fe195d97dff44a923e79af12b62d8b7ef94bddb3e26f2f56bac8b3cd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A1A 15104 bytes